Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

The action switched from sqlcmd to go-sqlcmd for script execution. It will automatically install the latest go-sqlcmd if it is not found. The action's yaml input format has been changed. This includes ...

In this post, I want to cover how you can create a dacpac for SQL Server 2022 databases using sqlpackage. So that you keep the new SQL Server 2022 compatibility level when you deploy new databases.

I want to cover one way you can do CI/CD for Azure Synapse Analytics serverless SQL pools using Azure DevOps in this post. Because I know it is a popular topic. It is related to my post about how you ...

-f, --package Yes Dacpac package full path or relative to the this exe including dacpac filename. Yes dacpac-cli.exe -c deploy -f MyDB.dacpac -n "Data Source=server1 ...

At its release, the SQL Server Dacpac extension was one of our top ten most requested features. It offers support for the Data-tier Application Wizard, which simplifies the development and deployment ...