But it was SQL Server’s new machine learning tools that grabbed my attention. Machine learning remains one of Microsoft’s big themes for 2017, and it’s an important segment of SQL Server 2017.

Summary of SQL Server 2017 new features Credit: Microsoft This new version of SQL Server continues to meet these twin demands. It adds new features from the worlds of data science and NoSQL.

SQL Advisor SQL Server Data Tools: A Work in Progress I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is ...

SQL Server 2017 RC1 can be downloaded here. On a related note, a Microsoft Docs article from May shows that the current SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2017 currently has support for SQL ...

Microsoft recently updated SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) with support for Visual Studio 2012, improved LocalDB functionality and new SSDT Power Tools. SSDT, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a ...

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the ...