This GitHub repository contains code samples that demonstrate how to use Microsoft's Azure Data products including SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, and Azure SQL Edge. Each sample ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

At the Ignite conference today, Microsoft made a series of announcements about Azure databases. It announced a brand-new Azure database called HorizonDB, which is a fully managed PostgreSQL database ...

This project is inspired by Microsoft Sample Databases, but it only targets other databases, such as MySql, PostgresQL, etc. This folder contains scripts to create and load the Northwind sample ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

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 ...

SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part in ...