Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

General availability on newer Linux distributions and CU1 signal a push toward stability, security and production readiness.

The daily routine of an IT professional remains largely reactive. A lot of time and budget is spent responding to tickets, limiting the time that we spend creating systems that drive growth and ...

As a follow-up to Microsoft Build at the end of May, we thought it was a good time to highlight recent updates for client tools. In this post, we’ll recap the updates to SQL tools over the past few ...

Microsoft has made SQL Server 2025 generally available. The latest version of the database focuses on built-in AI functionality and developer improvements. In addition, the release offers improved ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

We take pride in delivering innovation with each new version of Microsoft SQL Server. However, there comes a time when product lifecycles must conclude. On July 14, 2026, SQL Server 2016 will reach ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...