We released mssql-python 1.16.0, Microsoft’s Python driver for SQL Server and Azure SQL. This release gives developers more ways to install the driver, adds support for Python 3.15, and improves comm...

Years ago, in a galaxy far, far away, my colleagues in support, Keith Elmore and Robert Dorr, built a tool called ostress.exe. For decades it transformed the way we reproduced customer issues for SQL...

Starting with SQL Server 2025 CU9 and SQL Server 2022 CU27, SQL Server on Linux supports the bulkadmin fixed server role and the ADMINISTER BULK OPERATIONS permission for performing bulk data import ...

What’s changing We’re introducing a new script-based deployment experience for provisioning SQL Server on Linux Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). This experience replaces the earlier model that relied ...

For years we've been treating every one of our Microsoft SQL drivers as a distinct entity. We've heard your feedback that we need to re-examine that approach. A team running applications written in m...

This release is about making everyday database workloads more predictable. It fixes a collection of issues that could appear under connection failures, retries, transactions, pooling, streaming, encr...

mssql-django 2.0 is on PyPI. This release adds Microsoft's new mssql-python driver as a second way to connect, moves the supported Python, Django, and SQL Server versions forward, and fixes several c...

The 9th 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...

The 27th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative up...