Microsoft's early embrace of advanced AI in its dev tooling continues apace with the new public preview of SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the company's analytics/data platform. Fabric is a ...

Microsoft Fabric is ushering in a new era of database management through its innovative autonomous SQL databases. These innovative databases are designed to streamline your management tasks while ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain ...

SQL, the Structured Query Language, remains one of the most widely used programming languages, coming in fourth in Stack Overflow’s research for 2023. Just over half (51.52%) of professional ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have ...