A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have ...

A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. SQL Server is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual ...

Of course, SQL Server is married to one inescapable part of the Microsoft stack -- the Windows operating system. That means the company must also contend with the increasingly capable Linux platform.

General availability on newer Linux distributions and CU1 signal a push toward stability, security and production readiness.

The next-generation edition of Microsoft's flagship relational database system, SQL Server 2017, took a step closer to general availability with this week's launch of the first Release Candidate ...