Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Microsoft has announced that SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is now officially supported in the latest SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 3. This release is quite important for ...

At Microsoft Build 2025, we announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025. Built on a foundation of best-in-class security, performance, and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers customers to ...

As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most exciting advancements is the ability to enrich existing databases with semantic understanding through vector search ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

In July 2025, Microsoft will discontinue support for the Microsoft Connector for Oracle in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). This blog provides essential details to help customers prepare for ...

This article demonstrates how to connect to an **ODBC** data source from the **Choose a Data Source** or **Choose a Destination** page of the SQL Server Import and ...

Microsoft is doing its best to keep using modern services for its infrastructure, and this means that sometimes certain services have to be retired. The time has come for Change Data Capture ...

SQL Server 2008 has grabbed the headlines but Microsoft has improved SSIS 2008, too. Many new features of SQL Server 2008 have grabbed the headlines in the past year or so but quietly Microsoft has ...

Microsoft’s first major release of SQL Server in many years includes such sweeping improvements that it’s sometimes hard to see the old SQL Server underneath. Not a single area of the database remains ...