SQL Database Engine Blog

This is the blog of the engineering team managing and developing the Database Engine for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database

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Date: 03/28/2019

Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Azure cloud. Managed...

Date: 03/11/2019

Azure CosmosDB provides ODBC driver that enables you to query CosmosDB collections like classic...

Date: 03/11/2019

Azure SQL Managed Instance has predefined storage space that depends on the values of reserved...

Date: 03/08/2019

One of the biggest issue that you might experience in Managed Instance is reaching storage limit or...

Date: 03/06/2019

Wait statistics are information that might help you understand why the query duration is long and...

Date: 03/05/2019

SQL Server 2019 introduces several performance optimizations which will improve performance with...

Date: 03/04/2019

Checking file performance and comparing performance characteristics between SQL Server database...

Date: 03/04/2019

This blog is in the process of being migrated to one of the new consolidated SQL Server and Azure...

Date: 03/04/2019

Reference data is a dataset that is static or slow changing in nature which you can correlate with...

Date: 02/04/2019

Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed PaaS version of SQL Server hosted in Azure cloud and...

Date: 01/23/2019

Azure SQL Database - Managed Instance is fully-managed PaaS service that provides advanced...

Date: 01/21/2019

We are happy to announce General availability of Business Critical tier in Azure SQL Managed...

Date: 12/04/2018

Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully-managed SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud. With...

Date: 11/14/2018

Azure command line interface (CLI) is a set of commands that you can use to create and manage Azure...

Date: 11/14/2018

Consider the following query execution scenario: You execute a SELECT query that triggers an...

Date: 11/13/2018

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server Instance hosted in Azure cloud that is...

Date: 11/12/2018

Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt...

Date: 11/07/2018

Azure SQL Database Engineering team (@azuresqldb) represented by Lindsey Allen,  Joachim Hammer,...

Date: 11/05/2018

SQL Server IaaS Extension is installed by default on Azure virtual machines deployed from SQL Server...

Date: 10/25/2018

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Accelerated Database Recovery! Accelerated...

Date: 10/16/2018

Congratulations to our September top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain...

Date: 10/08/2018

Sometime you would need to know how many Managed Instance you have created in Azure cloud. Although...

Date: 10/01/2018

Congratulations to our August top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain...

Date: 09/25/2018

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines service offers the full control of VM and SQL Server and...

Date: 09/25/2018

Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt...

Date: 09/24/2018

Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed and secured SQL Server Database engine hosted in Azure...

Date: 09/21/2018

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server hosted in Azure cloud. Although it supports...

Date: 09/20/2018

Azure SQL Database Engineering team (@azuresqldb) represented by Lindsey Allen, Joachim Hammer,...

Date: 09/17/2018

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed latest stable version of SQL Server Database Engine hosted in...

Date: 09/12/2018

Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) is a command line library that enables you to quickly and easily...

Date: 09/03/2018

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance enables you to use most of the SQL Server features in fully...

Date: 08/31/2018

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure...

Date: 08/27/2018

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is SQL Server implementation on Azure cloud that keeps all...

Date: 08/20/2018

Azure SQL Managed Instance enables you to run cross-database queries the same way you do it in SQL...

Date: 08/17/2018

Congratulations to our July top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain their...

Date: 08/10/2018

Pearl Abyss is a Korea based game development studio established in 2009.  Black Desert Online, a...

Date: 07/23/2018

Kevin Farlee Principal Program Manager, SQL Database We are pleased to announce the public preview...

Date: 07/16/2018

Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt...

Date: 07/16/2018

Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt...

Date: 07/16/2018

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed PaaS SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud...

Date: 07/12/2018

One of the missing language features in T-SQL language is array support. In some cases you can use...

Date: 07/06/2018

Congratulations to our June top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain their...

Date: 07/05/2018

Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Azure cloud. You would...

Date: 07/02/2018

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is PaaS version of SQL Server hosted in Azure cloud. Managed...

Date: 06/28/2018

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure...

Date: 06/27/2018

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