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...

Microsoft JDBC Driver 13.6 for SQL Server is now available. This release helps Java applications get more work from the same infrastructure, diagnose latency with better context, strengthen critical ...

I am excited to share the release of mssql-python 1.15.0, our 15th release since General Availability. We build mssql-python for Python developers connecting their applications to SQL Server, Azure...

Microsoft ODBC Driver 18.7.1 for SQL Server is now generally available. This release continues the work we started in 18.6 to support modern application patterns while making the driver easier to d...

The Security Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM CU8 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites. This package cumulatively includes all previous secu...