SQL Server
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books
Who, Me? Forgot one setting, for one subdomain, and caused an hour of severe errors
Software01 Dec 2025 |60
Microsoft hits pause on Copilot ... in SQL Server Management Studio
Only a temporary reprieve until GitHub Copilot integration is up and running
AI + ML08 Sep 2025 |6
The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?
Comment Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs
Databases10 Mar 2025 |91
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 shuffles out of mainstream support
The fate of Skype is sad, but the clock is ticking for enterprises
Databases04 Mar 2025 |4
Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI
Ignite Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot
Databases19 Nov 2024 |5
SAP offers different way to move SQL Server-based software to the cloud
Just don’t call it an alternative to RISE with SAP
Databases07 Oct 2024 |3
Meta, Microsoft SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain
Opinion Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening?
Security24 Jun 2024 |38
Nearly 20% of running Microsoft SQL Servers have passed end of support
Exclusive That beige box running a server is easily forgotten ... until it goes wrong
Databases17 Jun 2024 |68
Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB
Updated Exclusive Regulatory body insists it's on 'a journey of improvement'
Databases22 Mar 2024 |87
Microsoft: Whoops, Patch Tuesday might screw your database connections
SQL sequel needed for ODBC apps
Software08 Dec 2022 |60
SQL Server license prices rise ten percent as version 2022 debuts
Udpated Azure SQL pay-as-you-go rate is the only rate that won't change, and it was already expensive
Databases23 Nov 2022 |26
SQL Server admins warned about Fargo ransomware
From a city in North Dakota with a crime problem to file-scrambling nasty
Security26 Sep 2022 |6
Microsoft offers SQL Server 2022 release candidate to Linux world
Redmond loves open source so much, it keeps most of its stuff closed
Databases08 Sep 2022 |18
Couldn't connect to West Europe SQL Databases last week? Blame operator error
Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer)
PaaS + IaaS25 Jul 2022 |5
How about a big dollop of Azure with that database engine? Microsoft opens up SQL Server 2022 preview
Ignite The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards
Databases02 Nov 2021 |2
SQL Server on Linux: Canonical offers official support, AWS Babelfish helps users move to Postgres
Amazon tech requires fork of PostgreSQL, is not fully compatible with SQL Server
Databases02 Nov 2021 |33
The age of the Service Pack is over. The time of the Modern Servicing Model has come
It's CUs and GDRs here on out for Microsoft's SQL Server
Software16 Sep 2021 |7
SQL Server beta for Windows Server Containers terminated 'with immediate effect'
Microsoft identifies 'ecosystem challenges' as reason for not supporting its own system
Software06 Jul 2021 |16
JET engine flaws can crash Microsoft's IIS, SQL Server, say Palo Alto researchers
Black Hat Asia Trio claim database queries can lead to remote code execution
Security06 May 2021 |17
Canonical and Microsoft get cosier with Active Directory integration in Ubuntu 21.04
SQL Server optimisations on way too, but 'Hirsute Hippo' not an LTS release so take-up may be tepid
OSes22 Apr 2021 |13
The ghosts of Microsoft SQL Server past, present, and yet to come: The Reg chats to Azure Data man Rohan Kumar
Interview WinFS, stability, and waking engineers
Software28 Dec 2020 |12
AWS Babelfish for PostgreSQL: A chance to slip the net of some SQL Server licensing costs?
Re:invent New project allows connection to PostgreSQL using SQL Server drivers
Software03 Dec 2020 |12
What a time to be alive: DB Admin raps about Microsoft SQL Server and he ain't even paid to do so
It's 2020. Things are weird. So maybe it's time to dance alone to 'Back Dat NAS up'
Bootnotes23 Oct 2020 |6
Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update
I don't know why she swallowed the fly...
Databases02 Oct 2020 |4
Ignite your SQL Server with a broken Cumulative Update
In brief Plus: All the rest from Microsoft's shindig – it's only wafer-thin
Software29 Sep 2020 |
The point of containers is they aren't VMs, yet Microsoft licenses SQL Server in containers as if they were VMs
And now to avoid container sprawl costing you plenty
Software08 May 2020 |70
Like Visual Studio Code and your data lives in SQL Server? Microsoft has something for you
SQL Object Explorer, SQLCMD and more IntelliCode arrive for VS Code
Software18 Oct 2019 |6
Windows 10 May 2019 Update declared safe at last, which bodes well for upcoming 19H2 build
Roundup Also: Azure, SQL Server and keeping the Windows 2008 R2 lights on
Software30 Sep 2019 |4
Free supported Java turns up in latest SQL Server 2019 preview
Microsoft: Why pay Oracle when you can pay us for Big Data Clusters?
Software25 Jul 2019 |10
It's 2019 and SQL Server can be pwned by an SQL query, DHCP failover server failed by a packet, Edge, IE by webpages...
Patch Tuesday Meanwhile, Adobe gives Flash the month off. SAP emits fixes, though
OSes10 Jul 2019 |9
Enterprise Windows 10 users, Microsoft has some 'quality' patches coming your way
Third bunch of fixes aimed at pleasing business types
Software25 Jul 2018 |25
Microsoft rolls out red carpet to hybrid Azure SQL databases
Redmond pitches tools for cloud byte-silo moves
Storage02 Nov 2017 |
SQL Server 2017: What's new, what's missing on Linux, and what's next?
Ignite Microsoft's general manager talks toReg about cross-platform SQL Server
OSes27 Sep 2017 |45
DataCore tech cranks wheezing SQL Servers to ridiculous speeds
Parallelising IO is like punching hyperspace button
Software26 Sep 2017 |12
SQL Server 2017's first rc lands and – yes! – it runs on Linux
Penguinistas knock, Redmond lowers the Drawbridge
OSes19 Jul 2017 |75
High-end backup kid Datos IO embraces relational, Hadoop data
Big data, big funding?
Databases03 May 2017 |
Microsoft touts SQL Server 2017 as 'first RDBMS with built-in AI'
Python slithers in next to R
Software19 Apr 2017 |22
Microsoft wants you to plan a new generation of legacy systems
Redmond offers six years extra support for Windows, SQL Servers, cheap if you pay now
Software05 Mar 2017 |20
Dirty data, flogged cores: YES, Microsoft SQL Server R Services has its positives
The language isn't the problem, it's you and your PC
Software16 Feb 2017 |17
See you around, Larry: AWS is our new Oracle, says Microsoft's Nadella
Analysis As cloud era sweeps in, Redmond faces up to fresh competition
SaaS30 Jan 2017 |8
Microsoft's Linux love-in continues with SUSE support in SQL Server
A wild early adopter programme appeared!
Software23 Jan 2017 |22
It's sooo much more than a data warehouse! Microsoft beams over new appliance update
Analytics Platform System made generally available
Systems30 Nov 2016 |1
SQL Server on Linux: Runs well in spite of internal quirks. Why?
First Look Some limitations but most things work
OSes24 Nov 2016 |102
Microsoft ❤️ Linux? Microsoft ❤️ running its Windows' SQL Server software on Linux
Embrace, extend, er, enter
OSes18 Nov 2016 |101
We ain't in 1996 anymore, Dorothy: SQL Server 2016 proves it
Enterprise engine? Check. Cloud database? TBC
Databases18 Jul 2016 |36
SELECT features FROM bumf... What's new in MS SQL Server 2016
Tasty new stuff from Microsoft – but you need Enterprise Edition for full use
Software01 Jun 2016 |35
Microsoft sets date for SQL Server on Linux
Be patient: first code won't land until 2017
OSes21 Mar 2016 |22
Microsoft SQL Server for Linux is a brilliant and logical idea
Storagebod If the money won't come to you, go to where the money is
OSes14 Mar 2016 |66
Speaking in Tech: SQL Server on Linux – Hell freezes over for Microsoft
Podcast Team also chats to streaming startup about the nuts and bolts
Software09 Mar 2016 |
SQL Server for Linux: A sign of Microsoft's weakness. Sort of
Analysis Also signals stronger cross-platform tools, access to new markets
OSes09 Mar 2016 |61
SQL Server 2016, now with vitamin R: Microsoft emits new preview
Execute R in the database for speedy analysis
On-Prem28 Oct 2015 |7
Mm, what's that smell, Microsoft SQL Server 2005? Yes, it's death
Six months left before end-of-life, warns Redmond
Databases13 Oct 2015 |7
Redmond whips sheet off first SQL Server 2016 public preview
Even Microsoft's betas now get the cloudy updates-all-the-time treatment
SaaS28 May 2015 |
Old, forgotten, lonely? SQL Server 2016 will sling you into Azure
Ignite 2015 Microsoft on the verge of hybrid cloud, plus encryption, JSON and more
SaaS04 May 2015 |9
Hey Amazon, why so expensive for SQL Server in your cloud?
Cloudy kit more than twice the price on Amazon – customer
Channel02 Feb 2015 |7
Microsoft improves Azure SQL Server cloud service, simultaneously makes it worse
SQL Server compatibility better, reporting as a service chopped
Databases06 Nov 2014 |2
Fusion-io: Ah, Microsoft. I see there's in-memory in SQL Server 2014... **GERONIMO!**
Server flasher leaps in to fulfil need for SQL speed
Channel16 Apr 2014 |16
Microsoft's Nadella: SQL Server 2014 means we're all about data
Adds new big data tools in quest for 'ambient intelligence'
SaaS15 Apr 2014 |8
Violin array comes with new SQL sauce
Windows Flash Array
Storage11 Apr 2014 |4
Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 early code: First look
Welcome to the Hekaton
Systems18 Mar 2014 |81
Windows 8.1 start button appears as Microsoft's Blue wave breaks
MSDN devs already surfing
Software25 Jun 2013 |115
Microsoft opens kimono on Server 2012 R2 at steamy Orleans bash
TechEd Private clouds, Azure-by-the-minute
Systems03 Jun 2013 |21
Biting the hand that feeds IT
