The February release of Azure Data Studio is now available
We’re excited to announce the February release of Azure Data Studio (formerly known as SQL Operations Studio) is now available.
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Azure Data Studio – Setting up your environment
This blog entry comes from Buck Woody, who recently rejoined the SQL Server team from the Machine Learning and AI team. -
Test the latest features with SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition
Are you curious how new capabilities in SQL Server will impact your applications? Download and test SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition, a full-featured free edition, licensed for use as a development and test database in a non-production environment. -
Webinar: Introduction to SQL Server 2019
Modern enterprises are struggling to gain insights from an exploding number of database management systems and ever-growing data volumes. -
The January release of Azure Data Studio
We are excited to announce the January release of Azure Data Studio (formerly known as SQL Operations Studio) is now available. -
Four ways to take your apps further with cloud, data, and AI solutions from Microsoft
Companies today demand the latest innovations for every solution they deliver. -
SSMS 18.0 Public Preview 6 released
We are very excited to announce the Public Preview 6 of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18. -
Introducing UTF-8 support in SQL Server 2019 preview
With the first public preview of SQL Server 2019, we announced support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding as an import or export encoding, and as database-level or column-level collation for string data. -
Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in SQL Server 2019 preview
SQL Server 2019 preview brings encryption technology to a broader set of scenarios by enabling rich confidential computing capabilities with the enhanced Always Encrypted feature, Always Encrypted with secure enclaves. -
Announcing SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 2.2
In September we announced SQL Server 2019 preview, the first release of SQL Server to create a unified data platform by packaging Apache SparkTM and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) together with SQL Server as a single, integrated solution. -
Availability Groups on Kubernetes in SQL Server 2019 preview
Starting with SQL Server 2017, Microsoft embarked on a journey to support SQL Server deployments on Linux and containers, in order to provide a choice of deployment platform for our customers and partners. -
SSMS 17.9.1 is now generally available
Update: SQL Server Management Studio 18.1 is now generally available.
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