The SSMS team is delighted to announce the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 3. This latest preview is chock full of exiting new features and fixes. For the detailed list of e...

Microsoft is excited to be back as the Sapphire Sponsor for this year’s PASS Data Community Summit, together with AMD. Together, we’re helping data professionals and DBAs modernize their environments...

  Building upon the innovations introduced in SQL Server 2022, SQL Server 2025 enhances Data Virtualization by prioritizing usability, strengthening security with expanded authentication options, a...

We’re making an important update to how customers provision SQL Server on Linux virtual machines (VMs) in Azure.  What’s Changing?  Starting soon, Linux-based SQL Server Virtual Machine (VM) imag...

We’re happy to announce that SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) now includes preview support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10, expanding our commitment to modern, secure, and flexible Li...

Version 13.2 of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server has been released. Version 13.2.0 brings several added features, changes, and fixed issues over the previous production release. Added ...

We have released for general availability Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 6.1. This .NET Data Provider for SQL Server provides general connectivity to the database and supports all the latest SQL Server fea...

The 21st 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...

The Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU20 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites. This package cumulatively includes all previous sec...