SQL Server

Microsoft held its Connect conference today and announced at the event are Visual Studio 2017, SQL Server v.Next for Windows and Linux, Visual Studio for the Mac, and that Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member.

Azure recently experienced a nasty outage, lasting several hours. It seems to have been centered around DNS, but had wide side effects. Microsoft’s cloud platform took something of a beating. By the sound of it, a DDoS could have been to blame. Or not. Redmond isn’t saying…

Microsoft Excel causes problems in genetic research. That’s the claim of three researchers from an Australian institute, who discovered almost 20% of data sets contained errors introduced by Excel. The problem is Excel being “clever”—guessing the type of data it’s being asked to import. Unfortunately…

SQL Server 2016 has reached general availability, meaning that the software is now ready for production environments.

Michel K. Campbell discusses how one of the big changes with SQL Server 2016 is bringing a slew of new benefits to end users.

Microsoft has announced the availability of SQL Server 2016 and the features that will be in each edition of the platform.

Michael K. Campbell shares his thoughts on Microsoft’s decision to run SQL Server on Linux, along with associated costs that likely motivated the tech giant’s decision.

If you are running SQL Server 2005, the software will no longer be supported after next week which will leave your data vulnerable.

Aidan Finn provides his take on why Microsoft’s is releasing its SQL Server platform to the open source Linux platform.

Microsoft is targeting Oracle customers with a new offer for SQL Server 2016 as the company ramps up its marketing effort for the new platform.