Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Microsoft Security Response Center has confirmed that a SQL Server elevation of ...

SQL Server 2025 gives developers new ways to work with text, JSON, real-time data changes and AI-ready vector data. Microsoft MVP Leonard Lobel explains why he considers it the most significant SQL ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

Microsoft announced a preview of SQL Server 2025 with native vector support, improved security, performance, and Azure integration. Pradeep Viswanathan Neowin @pradeepviswav · Nov 19, 2024 08:30 EST ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

CPU Pentium III-compatible processor or faster. 1GHz minimum. Recommended 2GHz or faster. Any Intel EMT64 or AMD x64 chip. Minimum 1.4GHz. Recommended 2GHz or faster. Itanium processor. Recommended ...

SQL Server 2005 databases are set to the Full recovery model by default, so you may need to start creating log backups even if you haven’t ran into problems yet. The following query can be used to ...