SQL Server 2022 also includes enhanced support for JSON data, query intelligence for better performance and a Ledger feature that enables blockchain-style tamper-proofing in the database.

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the "most Azure-enabled ...

Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data at Microsoft, says, “Striim’s point-to-point solution for SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric will help enterprises needing low-latency, real ...

This offering is in the Azure SQL Database family, though it bears more resemblance to your traditional on-premises SQL Server than it does to the cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS) product.

The SQL Server technology family's innovations extend beyond the "box product" (i.e. on-premises SQL Server), though. For example, Microsoft is bringing Azure SQL Database Managed Instance to ...

"The idea is if you have an on-premise SQL Server database and you have data, say your order lines, that is historical, that keeps accumulating in append-only type of tables.

SQL Server’s data resiliency story gets a boost thanks to the new “link feature” in Azure SQL Managed Instance. According to Kumar’s post, the link feature includes a built-in Distributed Availability ...

"The idea is if you have an on-premise SQL Server database and you have data, say your order lines, that is historical, that keeps accumulating in append-only type of tables.