The SQL Server team is unleashing the first widespread test builds of the next version of Microsoft's database, a k a SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed "Kilimanjaro").

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

Each version of Microsoft 's SQL Server comes with five years of full support, followed by five years of security-only updates. Here are five questions to ask as an agency’s current version hits the ...

SQL Server 2025 preview debuts with Ubuntu 24.04 support and TLS 1.3 encryption for stronger security and Linux flexibility.

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't.

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system ...

This week, Redmond posted a security advisory for Microsoft SQL Server, further detailed in KB article 961040. The good news is that the flaw is only present in older versions: Windows Internal ...

Microsoft Corp. will make one of its most lucrative products, a version of its SQL Server database program, available to users of the Linux operating system, a move beyond the company’s own ...

While many DBAs feel that "progressing" through the SQL Server versions (upgrading 2000 to 2005, etc.) is the safer route, SQL Server 2008 has been through quite a few paces at this point.

Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview ...