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SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available
With SQL Server on Azure Local, customers can modernize where their data resides while maintaining control over infrastructure, connectivity, and data placement.
What’s next for SQL? Performance, scale, AI, and developer productivity at the European SQL Community Conference
Join Microsoft Fabric and SQL Community Conference 2026 in Barcelona to explore SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, developer productivity tools, and the future of AI-powered data platforms.
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Keeping up with the data needs of the business with SQL Server 2016
Leaders are embracing the need to partner with IT to help them gain actionable insights from data. -
Introducing: SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 3.3
The SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3. -
Technical Overview: SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 3.3
The SQL Server engineering team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of SQL Server 2016 public preview release CTP 3. -
TLS 1.2 support availability for SQL Server
Microsoft is ensuring that customers can remain compliant with the current changes in guidance for using strong cryptography for implementing security control. -
It’s time! Registration is now open for Microsoft Ignite
It’s time — Register now for Microsoft Ignite and mark your calendar for September 26–30. -
Webcast: Upgrading and migrating SQL Server 2005 BI features to SQL Server 2014 and 2016
Please join us on February 3, at 10:00 am PST for a webinar on upgrading and migrating from SQL Server 2005 BI features to SQL Server 2014 and 2016 with guest speaker Paul Turley, SolidQ Mentor and MVP. -
Use Dynamic Data Masking to obfuscate your sensitive data
Data privacy is a major concern today for any organization that manages sensitive data or personally identifiable information (PII). -
Limiting access to data using Row-Level Security
To satisfy compliance standards, internal regulations or basic security principles, applications often need to limit a user’s access to only certain rows of data in a database. -
Microsoft Business Intelligence PASS keynote: Five minutes to sign up; five minutes to WOW!
See how you can get real-time interactive visualizations of customer data, as Microsoft Corporate Vice President James Phillips demonstrates exciting new capabilities available with Power BI and Microsoft’s powerful data platform, including SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Datazen, and Azure SQL Database. -
Data security, SQL Server 2016, and your business
Security is unquestionably a major priority for Microsoft. -
Preview the newest ODBC SQL Server Driver for Windows and Linux
We are pleased to announce the community technology preview of Microsoft ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server on Windows and Linux, supporting Ubuntu, RedHat and SUSE distributions! The updated driver provides robust data access to Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL Database via ODBC on Windows and Linux platforms. -
Effortlessly Analyze Data History Using Temporal Tables
Real data sources are never static; critical business information changes over time and important decisions often rely on insights that analysts get from evolving data.
