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 ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or ...

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.

This article introduces the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) feature of Visual Studio 2013. This feature is used to manage databases using a source code first methodology.

SQL Server 2016’s new stretch database feature promises to offer local server performance for hot data and cloud storage for old data without any change to the application.

Particularly in the case of SQL Server, introducing vector columns may require schema evolution, which can be disruptive. Of course Azure Cosmos DB is schema-free, meaning that while there is schema, ...

SQL Server 2008 offers two options for collecting change tracking information within the database engine, using built-in features that offer reliability and performance advantages over tracking tables ...

The big difference with SQL Server, as opposed to many other database-related AI announcements, is that you have complete control of what AI model you use with SQL Server and where you run it.

Also, although DB-Engines also ranked MySQL high, at No. 2, its No. 3-ranked database, SQL Server, was relegated to the "Other" category in the ScaleGrid report. "So, which databases are most popular ...