Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...

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Microsoft has officially announced SQL Server Management Studio SSMS 22 Preview 5. And it comes with improvements and reliability updates for developers who use GitHub Copilot within SSMS. This update ...

Following on from my post two weeks ago about how to get the details of Power BI operations seen in the Capacity Metrics App using the OperationId column on the Timepoint Detail page, I thought it was ...

In announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately. A Copilot for the tool that helps users manage, ...

AI is transforming everything we do, including how we interact with data. Data is the fuel for AI. Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL is the data platform to power today’s modern applications with ...

The following T-SQL statement retrieves information such as Hostname, Current instance name, Edition, Server type, Service Pack and version number from current SQL Server connection. 'Edition' will ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Query Store is one of the most powerful database-scoped features in SQL Server for troubleshooting performance and improving the stability of your database ...

My favourite – and it seems many other people’s favourite – new feature in the February 2022 Power BI Desktop release is support for more datasources (including SQL Server, Azure SQL DB and Synapse) ...

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