We're excited to announce the release of mssql-python 1.5.0, the latest version of Microsoft's official Python driver for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and SQL databases in Fabric. This release del...

What Is the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL? The Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL provides native connectivity from Windows, Linux, and macOS applications to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Ma...

We are excited to introduce the next generation of High Availability (HA) Agent for SQL Server on Linux: Pacemaker HA Agent v2. This release is a major step forward, designed to reduce planned and un...

Bulk data import using operations like BULK INSERT and OPENROWSET(BULK…) BULK INSERT (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn is fundamental to ETL and data ingestion workflows. On SQL Server ru...

Today we're announcing the release of Microsoft Drivers 5.13.0 for PHP for SQL Server, the first GA release of the sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv extensions in over two years. We're not going to bury the le...

Today we're shipping the general availability release of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0, a major milestone for the .NET data provider for SQL Server. This release tackles the single most requested chan...

We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Microsoft JDBC Driver 13.4 for SQL Server. This release incorporates all improvements delivered across the 13.3.x preview cycle (13.3.0, 13...

We're excited to announce the release of mssql-python 1.4.0, the latest version of Microsoft's official Python driver for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and SQL databases in Fabric. This release del...

For years, Django developers who needed SQL Server have had to navigate a patchwork of community forks and half-maintained backends. mssql-django changed that — an official, Microsoft-supported backe...

The 3rd cumulative update release for SQL Server 2025 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative upd...