As part of Microsoft’s March 2026 Security Update, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server, tracked as CVE-2026-21262, was disclosed and patched. The flaw arises from improper ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

In this Microsoft SQL Server and JDBC tutorial, you'll learn how to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server in Java using JDBC. The steps are relatively straightforward: Each database is different, so ...

At today's kickoff for Microsoft Ignite, the company announced that SQL Server 2025 is finally coming. No timing was announced for the release, but based on prior versions, I would expect to see a ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a Microsoft application for managing SQL Server databases through a user-friendly interface and various tools. Features of SSMS include Query Editor, Database ...

-- How to determine the version, edition and update level of SQL Server and its components EXEC sys.xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, N'detected', N'socket'; -- This can help you determine the exact core counts ...

Microsoft packed SQL Server 2016 with new advanced features that are supposed to help it compete with a host of other database software. But some of the advanced capabilities in the relational ...

If you’re following Microsoft Azure news, then you’re probably excited to hear that the images for SQL Server 2016 are available in Windows Server 2016. Even though the SQL came out earlier this year, ...