The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default when SQL Server is installed. Microsoft offers the tool as part of the Microsoft SQL Server Feature Pack, or you can download just the Provider ...

Denali will be the final edition of SQL Server to support OLE DB, because Microsoft considers ODBC to be the industry standard for relational data access.

The ERP doesn’t even have to be an SQL Server database, so long as it is accessible. SQL Server 2019’s data virtualisation supports Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Azure SQL, Oracle, HDFS and DB2.

The holy grail of database development is the ability to treat database objects (tables, views, stored procedures, etc.) as if they were just like any other form of source code. While SQL Server ...

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups.

By Joey D'Antoni 05/19/2025 Today, at Microsoft Build, Microsoft announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025 -- the latest release of their premier database product.

Bring AI to your database! Learn how to build smarter apps with vector search in SQL Server & Azure Cosmos DB -- no extra AI stack required.

Good old-fashioned SQL still rules the database roost even though popular offerings in the NoSQL camp are closing the gap, while MySQL is the most popular of the whole bunch in a new report from ...