Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The SQL specification defines four transaction isolation levels, although a fifth transaction ...

The Chinook Database is a sample database widely used for learning, practising SQL, and testing database management tools. It is commonly used in tutorials, technical interviews, and courses that ...

This tutorial is the first step in a six-step process that demonstrates how to create a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) paginated report. Report parts are deprecated for all releases of SQL ...

It turns out i was allocated into a back-end Microsoft stack project at the company i work with, that one includes SQL Server db with it. That's also a great oportunity to study its new features since ...

The custom runtime can run machine learning scripts and uses the SQL Server Language Extensions. Use your own version of the Python runtime with SQL Server, instead of the default runtime version ...

Snowpark for Python gives data scientists a nice way to do DataFrame-style programming against the Snowflake data warehouse, including the ability to set up full-blown machine learning pipelines to ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

We’re excited to announce a new migration experience in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new experience, now in preview, is powered by Azure Database Migration Service.

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

We are excited to announce the general availability of SQL Server 2017 and Machine Learning Services. You can start using Python-based in-database Machine Learning Services for production usage now.