SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Microsoft packed SQL Server 2016 with new advanced features that are supposed to help it compete with a host of other database software. But some of the advanced capabilities in the relational ...

Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview was ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

SQL Server 2016, sporting a full-fledged free edition for developer use, will have a June 1 release. But there's still no word about the promised Linux version SQL Server 2016, Microsoft’s newest ...

As SQL Server 2005 approaches its scheduled end of life, higher ed must decide what to do with existing SQL Server databases. Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to ...