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Microsoft publishes SQL Server 2025 Release candidate with TLS 1.3, Ubuntu 24.04 support and many AI improvements. Reading processes are up to 50 times faster, but an important restriction remains ...

Choose a SQL Server trial, edition, tool, or connector that best meets your data and workload needs. Get the performance and security of SQL Server 2022—a scalable, hybrid data platform—now ...

A private preview of SQL Server 2025 began in November 2024, followed by a public preview in May 2025. Now, it is time for the natural next step, as the tool has received its first release candidate, ...

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SSMS 22 Preview debuts soon with new features, while SSMS 21.5 update delivers key fixes and performance improvements.

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Curiously, Microsoft’s own Security Update Guide (SUG) for August 2025 Patch Tuesday only lists 86 vulns, and that’s because ...

When running the app with TickerQ integrated via EF Core, queries against the ticker tables fail on SQL Server 12.0. The generated query uses OPENJSON, which was not supported before SQL Server 2016.