Most enterprise applications rely on the database as the persistence mechanism. Integration tests for these applications require data in the database to run correctly. For integration tests to be ...

SQL Server 2008 has grabbed the headlines but Microsoft has improved SSIS 2008, too. Many new features of SQL Server 2008 have grabbed the headlines in the past year or so but quietly Microsoft has ...

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 ...

Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements.

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) ...