SQL Server 2025’s OPTIMIZED_SP_EXECUTESQL is a game-changer for dynamic SQL. Instead of a swarm of sessions piling on and frying your CPU, one session does the compile while the rest briefly wait, ...

These built-in system views give real-time access to what’s happening inside SQL Server—right now. From identifying slow queries to monitoring memory pressure, SQL Server Dynamic Management Views give ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Choose a SQL Server trial, edition, tool, or connector that best meets your data and workload needs. Accelerate AI development with SQL Server 2025, the AI-ready enterprise database with best-in-class ...

SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform (which is available as a Community Technology Preview [CTP] as of this writing), includes exciting ...

Crono-Auditor is a lightweight, high-performance auditing system designed for modern data environments. It abandons the "one audit table per table" approach in favor of a Universal Log Architecture ...

You can treat SQL Server on Linux as a new deployment option, not a whole new database. That means you can choose the operating system that best fits your project. Bringing SQL Server to Linux is one ...