It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data ...

Change Event Streaming (CES) in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL enables event-driven architectures by streaming JSON records from table activity to Azure Event Hub, with Entra support now available in ...

The Azure SQL team has released version 1.34.0 of the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, a cross‑platform tool for developing against SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and SQL Database in Fabric.

At today's kickoff for Microsoft Ignite, the company announced that SQL Server 2025 is finally coming. No timing was announced for the release, but based on prior versions, I would expect to see a ...

In the article, I created a database user named SP_ADF_POC, which is a service principal on Entra to connect to Azure SQL Database for the linked service in Azure Data Factory (ADF) using the ...

When you create a SQL Azure server via the SQL Azure portal, you generate a username and password simultaneously. This is your administrative account, which has access to all databases on that server.

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Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. We are excited to announce general availability of the link feature for Managed Instance for SQL Server 2022–the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet.

The link is a feature of Azure SQL Managed Instance and is currently in preview. All databases that will be replicated via the link must be in full recovery mode and have at least one full backup. Use ...

This article teaches you how to fail over a database from SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance by using the link feature in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Failing over your database from SQL ...