SQL Server 2008 R2 gave us data-tier applications ("DACs") and yet another Visual Studio project type All these database project types can get pretty confusing. And the funny part is that you're still ...

I'm trying to create a new database diagram in SQL Server so that I can refer to it for relationships and that sort of thing. I opened SQL Server Enterprise Manager, created a new diagram, added ...

How to import or export diagrams with SQL Server? Information about the diagrams is stored in the dtproperties table. Basically to import or export a diagram, you simply need to import or export the ...

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.

Online analytical processing (OLAP) cube example Hybrid Distributed Data example As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now.

An interesting session I attended at the PASS Summit in Seattle was one concerning dealing with VLDBs in SQL Server. It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented ...

The extension model introduced with Visual Studio Code and subsequently tracked by the Visual Studio IDE is proving so popular it has been applied to SQL Operations Studio, Microsoft's cross-platform, ...

SQL Server 2022 customers will see benefits in the areas of data integration, analytics, governance, and high availability thanks to the database’s enhanced connectivity to the Azure cloud, Microsoft ...