SQL, the Structured Query Language, remains one of the most widely used programming languages, coming in fourth in Stack Overflow’s research for 2023. Just over half (51.52%) of professional ...

Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the ...

Microsoft releases cumulative updates for SQL Server 2025 and SQL Server 2022 environments. Updates improve database reliability, query processing, performance and operational stability for ...

Microsoft has made managing encryption keys more secure for users running SQL Server 2022 CU18 and later on Azure Linux Virtual Machines with Managed Identity. Microsoft has announced that SQL Server ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

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 though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

Top GitHub database repositories for SQL tools, data engineering, analytics databases, and open source systems used in modern scalable data workflows.

The cloud security landscape has evolved dramatically by 2026, with Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI) now operating under a strict Zero-Trust framework that prioritizes data-centric defense over ...