Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

Artificial intelligence is changing how organisations use data. Tasks that once required complex queries and manual analysis can now be done in minutes with modern analytics platforms. Because of this ...

Managing a modern enterprise data landscape in 2026 is a lot like running a high-speed, global railway network. You have massive freight trains of legacy data leaving on-premise servers in Mumbai, ...

Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

Microsoft has announced that SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is now officially supported in the latest SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 3. This release is quite important for ...

If you’ve recently started working with Microsoft Fabric and are wondering how to bring in data from your on-prem SQL Server, you’re not alone. Many teams are now moving from Azure Data Factory to ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced SQL Server Stretch Database in 2016, our guiding principles for such hybrid data storage solutions have always been affordability, security, and native Azure ...

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end suite of cloud-based tools for data analytics, encompassing data movement, data storage, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, and ...

This project demonstrates an end-to-end Azure data engineering solution, starting from a local SQL database and culminating in Power BI reporting, all automated. Thanks to Mr. K Talks Tech for the ...

In this section, you create a self-hosted integration runtime and associate it with an on-premises machine with the SQL Server database. The self-hosted integration runtime is the component that ...

The database to be used for this lab it's the open source data export from Stack Overflow (2010 version) in a 2019 SQL Server instance (developer edition). 2 - Storage Account To be able to store our ...