Microsoft SQL Server Blog
Featured Posts
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.
-
Microsoft SQL Server team hosts Ask Me Anything session
This post was authored by Vin Yu, Program Manager, Data Platform The Microsoft SQL Server team will host a special Ask Me Anything session on /r/SQLServer, Friday, November 18th, 2016 from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm PDT. -
Upgrade with Data Migration Assistant 2.0 and Database Experimentation Assistant Preview
This week as part of Joseph Sirosh’s PASS Summit 2016 keynote, Microsoft announced general availability of Data Migration Assistant v2. -
ODBC Driver 13.0 for SQL Server – Linux is now released
This post is authored by Meet Bhagdev. We are delighted to share the full release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13 for Linux – (Ubuntu, RedHat and SUSE). -
Top 5 Announcements at PASS Summit 2016
This post is by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft. -
World’s Biggest SQL Server Event is Coming in 6 Days!
This post is by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft. -
Free eBook: Using SQL Server 2016 for Data Science & Advanced Analytics
Reposted from the Cortana Intelligence & Machine Learning blog. -
SQL Server as a Machine Learning Model Management System
This post was authored by Rimma Nehme, Technical Assistant, Data Group Machine Learning Model Management If you are a data scientist, business analyst or a machine learning engineer, you need model management – a system that manages and orchestrates the entire lifecycle of your learning model. -
Developers: Don’t miss this PASS Summit pre-conference session
The new era of data driven and intelligent applications is here – powered by a robust data platform and a secure cloud infrastructure. -
SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows containers
We are excited to announce the public availability of SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows Containers! The image is now available on Docker Hub and the build scripts are hosted on our SQL Server Samples GitHub repository. -
1,000,000 predictions per second
This post is by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft. -
PASS Summit 2016: world’s biggest SQL Server event
PASS Summit 2016 is community-driven event with three days of technical sessions, networking, and professional development. -
Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016: Leveraging Hyper-V large-scale VM performance for in-memory transaction processing
This post was authored by Liang Yang, Principal Performance Engineer on the Hyper-V team and Jos de Bruijn, Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server team.
