This data virtualization scenario is possible with the use of PolyBase connectors." First introduced with SQL Server 2016, PolyBase has evolved over the years and with the latest version, SQL Server ...

SQL Server Data Tools Updated for Visual Studio 2012 Microsoft recently updated SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) with support for Visual Studio 2012, improved LocalDB functionality and new SSDT Power ...

REDMOND, Wash. — April 18, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of Visual Studio® 2005 Beta 2, Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 and the SQL Server (TM) 2005 April Community ...

Visual Studio .NET tools interface nicely with the database, and the code runs on Windows Server 2003.” The server’s high scalability, he says, is also beneficial. “We have four terabytes of database ...

PySpark development is now fully supported in Visual Studio Code. Through an extension built for the aforementioned purpose, users can run Spark jobs with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 won Solid IT's database management system of the year award with MySQL and PostgresSQL as the runners up in the rankings.

While Larry Ellison was in the counting house counting all his money (or trophy homes), Microsoft engineers were hard at work spending thousands of hours building SQL Server 2014.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3. This version is focused mainly on addressing community feedback and resolved almost 100 tickets. Additionally, there are some new features: an ...

At the recent Build conference, Microsoft announced a new database offering, which brings SQL Server capabilities to edge computing. Officially called Azure SQL Database Edge, the service runs on ...