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Announcements June 4, 2018 1 min read

Microsoft is pleased to announce that the Analytics Platform System (APS) appliance update 7 (AU7) is now generally available.

Best Practices May 29, 2018 7 min read

This blog post is also authored by Travis Wright, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft; and Jamie Reding, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft.

Best Practices May 14, 2018 1 min read

We have released our second major update for mssql-cli since our public preview announcement in December.

Best Practices May 14, 2018 3 min read

This is a partner post authored with the Tableau team.

Updates May 9, 2018 2 min read

This post is co-authored by Sandy Winarko, Principal PM, SQL Server.

Updates May 8, 2018 3 min read

UPDATE: SQL Operations Studio is now GA and renamed to Azure Data Studio.

Updates April 25, 2018 6 min read

UPDATE: SQL Operations Studio is now GA and renamed to Azure Data Studio.

Updates April 24, 2018 1 min read

The SQL Server team is excited to bring you the second service pack release for SQL Server 2016.

Updates April 19, 2018 2 min read

This post is authored by John ‘JG’ Chirapurath, General Manager, Azure Data.

Updates April 10, 2018 2 min read

We are excited to announce that a new update for the mssql extension for VS Code is now available on the VS Code Marketplace.

Updates March 28, 2018 3 min read

UPDATE: SQL Operations Studio is now GA and renamed to Azure Data Studio.

Updates March 20, 2018 2 min read

Download SSMS 17.6 and review the Release Notes to get started.

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