Microsoft dropped the concept of Service Packs with SQL Server 2017, opting instead for Cumulative Updates (CUs), which the company aims to release once a month for the first year after release, ...

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

SQL Server 2019 continues to push the boundaries of security, availability, and performance for all your data workloads, now with new compliance tools, higher performance on the latest hardware, and ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) used in many enterprise-level companies. It provides a secure and scalable environment for storing, managing, and retrieving ...

AAD Support v1.1 of the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL now includes support for AAD authentication.

The Microsoft SQL Server release is available for testing purposes only and should NOT be installed and used in production environments. If you have questions or concerns that come up during your ...

Microsoft hasn’t announced when it expects to ship SQL Server 2022, but it’s common for new releases to arrive around the time of Microsoft Ignite, which is at the end of October this year.