Microsoft is offering a free new Azure Expert Assessment option for organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 29, 2023
SQL Server 2014 is still a supported product into mid-2024, but Microsoft has opened partner sales of Extended Security Updates for it this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 05, 2023
Microsoft will "retire" its Azure Database for MariaDB service on Sept. 19, 2025.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 26, 2023
Microsoft last week announced that its upcoming SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate (RC) 0 is now available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 29, 2022
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will no longer be supporting SQL Server 2012
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2022
Microsoft said that SQL Server 2022 is nearing a public preview release, and is set for sometime later this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 12, 2022
Microsoft released the latest version of its flagship relational database, SQL Server 2019, during its 2019 Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla.
- By Becky Nagel
- November 04, 2019
Microsoft expanded its IoT lineup this week, announcing the general availability of NXP support in Windows 10 IoT Core and the forthcoming release of SQL Server IoT 2019.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2019
A release candidate of the forthcoming SQL Server 2019 product can now be downloaded from Microsoft's Evaluation Center page.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2019
Microsoft claims its new service-level agreement for Azure SQL Database offers the most guaranteed uptime compared to its competitors.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 01, 2019
SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 will no longer receive security patches from Microsoft as of Tuesday, July 9.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 09, 2019
The database management system (DBMS) market's growth is increasingly being driven by cloud services, not by more traditional on-premises systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup service can now support SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2019
Organizations running Windows and other Microsoft applications can now take advantage of improved integrations with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup for SQL Server solution, which is used to backup SQL Server when the relational database management system is housed on Azure datacenter virtual machines, became generally available this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 19, 2019
Microsoft this week acquired Citus Data, whose flagship offering is an extension that scales out the open source PostgreSQL relational database management system in datacenters.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 24, 2019
A raft of improvements are coming to Microsoft's database products, including migration support to Azure SQL Database, Apache Kafka Support on Azure Event Hubs, Azure SQL Data Warehouse improvements and yet another preview of the coming SQL Server 2019 product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2018
Microsoft is changing a few things in the way it services SQL Server, starting with SQL Server 2017 and including the upcoming SQL Server 2019, which reached the preview stage at last month's Ignite conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 09, 2018
Organizations using SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 products can add three years of patch support via Microsoft's new Extended Security Updates plans, the company announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2018
The latest addition to Microsoft's sprawling Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) product line, SQL ATP, is now available for Azure SQL Database users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 18, 2018