SQL Server

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 to Reg 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

Microsoft cuts to core on BizTalk Server price hike

April changes slip loose

Software18 Mar 2013 | 8

Got loads of old databases clogging up your company's storage?

Let us hoover up that old Oracle info, pleads CEO

Storage16 Oct 2012 | 3