Microsoft SQL Server 2022 is generally available today, marking the first major update for Microsoft's longstanding on-premises database technology in three years. A key theme of the Microsoft SQL ...

Cloud databases, also known as Database as a Service (DBaaS), offer a range of benefits for developers, particularly in terms of ease of use, deployment options, disaster recovery, and scalability.

From AWS, Google and Oracle to Databricks, IBM and Snowflake, here are the top 16 vendors leading the cloud database management systems market, according to Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s Top ...

The emergence of globally scalable online services for social networks, streaming content, retail, payment systems and other business uses significantly changed application infrastructure requirements ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

A native BM25 index in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL provides full-text retrieval without having to provision, manage, or pay for separate systems.

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...