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SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available
With SQL Server on Azure Local, customers can modernize where their data resides while maintaining control over infrastructure, connectivity, and data placement.
What’s next for SQL? Performance, scale, AI, and developer productivity at the European SQL Community Conference
Join Microsoft Fabric and SQL Community Conference 2026 in Barcelona to explore SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, developer productivity tools, and the future of AI-powered data platforms.
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The December release of SQL Operations Studio is now available
UPDATE: SQL Operations Studio is now GA and renamed to Azure Data Studio. -
Bring clarity to complex data with graph databases on SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2017, in addition to processing relational data, now fully integrates with graph database models, all on the same familiar system. -
Try mssql-cli, a new interactive command line tool for SQL Server
mssql-cli, a new and interactive command line query tool for SQL Server. -
What’s new in SSMS 17.4: SQL Vulnerability Assessment
This post is co-authored by Ronit Reger, Senior Program Manager, SQL Data Security. -
Azure Database Migration Service Public Preview brings the “lift and shift”
It’s time to get excited—the Azure Database Migration Service Public Preview is here to help you move on-premises SQL Servers to the cloud with near-zero downtime. -
SQL Server 2017: The world’s first enterprise-class diskless database
This post is authored by Bob Ward, Principal Architect, and Jamie Reding, Senior Program Manager and Performance Architect, Microsoft Database Systems Group. -
SQL Server 2017: A proven leader in database performance
This post was authored by Bob Ward, Principal Architect, and Jamie Reding, Senior Program Manager and Performance Architect, Microsoft Database Systems Group. -
Announcing SQL Operations Studio for preview
UPDATE: SQL Operations Studio is now GA and renamed to Azure Data Studio. -
SQL Server 2017 Features Bring ‘Choice’ to Developers
Data is everywhere today: in the cloud, on premises, and everywhere in between, tied up in systems of nearly endless complexity. -
Three years in a row – Microsoft is a leader in the ODBMS Magic Quadrant
We’re happy to report that Gartner has positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems again this year. -
SQL Server 2017 and Azure Data Services – The ultimate hybrid data platform
This post was authored by Rohan Kumar, General Manager Database Systems Engineering. -
Top five reasons to join us for the PASS Summit 2017 Day 1 Keynote
PASS Summit 2017 takes place from November 1 to November 3, in Seattle, Washington at the Washington State Convention Center.
