Microsoft is making available on July 17 its first near-final public Release Candidate of SQL Server 2017. SQL Server 2017 is the first version of Microsoft's SQL Server database that will run on both ...

Microsoft is making available to anyone who wants to kick the tires a first public preview release of its coming SQL Server 2016 on-premises database. Testers can download what's called SQL Server ...

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As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

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 before your next upgrade. 1. Should My ...

Microsoft on Tuesday will unveil the first developer preview of ‘Denali,’ the next major release of SQL Server. Microsoft on Tuesday will unveil the first developer preview of “Denali,” the next major ...

What’s your average success rate of getting a SQL statement right on the first try? In best case, you botched a simple statement without side effects and just have to try again with correct syntax or ...