Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

To test a SQL database connection, you'll need at least four pieces of information: the user name password, database name and endpoint (such as a DNS name or IP address). For this article, we're only ...

Microsoft has released another test version of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database and has introduced a free management tool. The company made the second "community technology preview" of SQL ...

Microsoft is making available for download a test build of Service Pack 1 for its SQL Server 2012 database, as well as new SQL Azure cloud-database additions.

Another key feature in SQL Server 2017 is container support, according to Tony Petrossian, partner group program manager of the Database Systems Group at Microsoft.

I have sort of an odd situation. I have a lot of distributed machines working on a simulation. They each start out with their own work, process it, and eventually put it into a SQL database ...

I have been using these features in testing for a while, and during the conference, I had a chance to speak with Joe Sack, Principal Product Manager for Azure SQL Database, about the new features.

Microsoft is making available a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of "Houston," a tool for those looking to do rapid database development in the cloud.