Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

To test a SQL database connection, you'll need at least four pieces of information: the user name password, database name and endpoint (such as a DNS name or IP address). For this article, we're only ...

Microsoft has released another test version of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database and has introduced a free management tool. The company made the second "community technology preview" of SQL ...

tSQLt is a free, open-source framework for unit testing in SQL Server. By writing tSQLt test cases, developers can create fake tables and views based on production data, then compare expected ...

I have been using these features in testing for a while, and during the conference, I had a chance to speak with Joe Sack, Principal Product Manager for Azure SQL Database, about the new features.

I have sort of an odd situation. I have a lot of distributed machines working on a simulation. They each start out with their own work, process it, and eventually put it into a SQL database ...

Another key feature in SQL Server 2017 is container support, according to Tony Petrossian, partner group program manager of the Database Systems Group at Microsoft.

Microsoft is making available for download a test build of Service Pack 1 for its SQL Server 2012 database, as well as new SQL Azure cloud-database additions.

Microsoft has released another test version of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database and has introduced a free management tool. The company made the second "community technology preview" of SQL ...