Accessibility Addressed issue with screen reader announcing incomplete or incorrect information in the database properties dialog. Always Encrypted Fixed inability to change the Enable Secure Enclaves ...

This feature will be removed in a future version of SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. For high availability ...

Microsoft releases SQL Server Management Studio 22.9.0 with GitHub Copilot, Database DevOps and SQL formatting enhancements. GitHub Copilot Ask Mode now generates reviewable T-SQL scripts, while Agent ...

If you're considering moving your on-premises SQL Server databases to the Microsoft Azure cloud, you need to decide which of the different cloud options works best for you. You might not realize it to ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

According to Microsoft, you can use the contained database model to make the database more portable. This prevents orphaned users after a restore by authenticating accounts directly at the database ...

Azure Data Studio is a free Microsoft desktop tool, initially called SQL Operations Studio, that can be used to manage SQL Server databases and cloud-based Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data ...

The latest version has reached general availability a few months after the release of v18.4. It brings a bunch of new features and general bug fixes, along with more specific improvements. In November ...