PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

SQL Server Reporting Services includes the SQL Server Report Designer, whose wizards give you a streamlined solution for setting up, designing, polishing, and publishing reports. Authoring a report ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target. Logging is an essential feature for any application, as it is ...

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a morass of acronyms, from SMO to SSMS to SOS, and differentiating one from the other can be a challenge. I recently caught up with Vicky Harp, lead program manager ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...

Paul Flessner, Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Server Applications, accompanied his April 6, 2006 announcement of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 with news that SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition (SSM ...

Alternatively, you could click on the Edit button to open the Query Builder and create a SELECT statement using a graphical interface. This works like the Query Builder in SQL Server Enterprise ...