SQL Server: The traditional database engine, which also stores SSRS catalog data. SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS): A component for online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining.

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server's Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

Beyond Relational Data SQL Server “Katmai” enables users to do the following: Manage any type of data including relational data, documents, geographic information and XML Work with a consistent set of ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even ...