Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features through PREVIEW_FEATURES. A private preview of SQL Server 2025 began in ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

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 ...

You can create only one listener per availability group through [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion]. Typically, each availability group requires only one listener. However, some customer scenarios require multiple ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Today, we announced the general availability of SQL Server 2022, the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet, with continued innovation across performance ...

Customers who are running their SQL Server workloads using SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and Azure SQL Managed Instance are now eligible for new high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

Server trust group (also known as SQL trust group) is a concept used for managing trust between instances in Azure SQL Managed Instance. By creating a group, a certificate-based trust is established ...