Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

To run your SQL Pass-Through views for the MS SQL Server, you are encouraged, but not required, to create a data source name. You can use the ODBC administrator to create it. Refer to Data Source ...

What does your view look like? SQL Server doesn't like inserting values into "complex" views, iirc.

Since the SQL Server was on a server other than my View Connection server, I had to enable networking for the database. To do this, I went to the SQL Server Configuration Manager, expanded the SQL ...

Microsoft SQL Server's relational engine has offered new instrumentation that improves by light years with each new release. The introduction of Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) in SQL Server 2005 ...

Missing Indexes Dynamic Management Views SQL Server includes a set of dynamic management views which tell you what indexes the SQL Server database engine thinks need to be added.

Java in SQL Server in Open Source Software This feature set is an example of a broader language extensions capability released in SQL Server 2018 that allows you to utilize SQL Server’s relational ...

Microsoft has clarified the more confusing elements of SQL Server licensing and extended major benefits to customers. The catch is that Software Assurance is required to take advantage of them.

Rastogi, a Microsoft program manager, was on hand to provide the keynote presentation for the Artificial Intelligence Live! and SQL Server Live! segments of the multi-part tech conference, showing how ...

Visual Studio 2022 has been out for some eight months now, but it still lacks full support for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), a top feature request.