SQL Server 2022 now available for both RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 in Preview mode
We are glad to announce that SQL Server 2022 is now available in preview mode for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and Ubuntu 22.04. For this preview, only Evaluation edition is available, which is limited to 180 days starting Thursday, July 27th …
Cumulative Update #7 for SQL Server 2022 RTM
The 7th 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 updates. To learn more about the release or servicing mo …
I/O optimizations for tempdb in SQL Server and Azure SQL
I have found almost every day of my career at Microsoft, I learn something new about Microsoft SQL. It is one of the reasons I enjoy my job. In April of 2023, I was speaking at the MVP Summit in Redmond, Washington. One day I was spending time in a sid …
Azure Data Studio 1.45 Release and Hotfix
We released Azure Data Studio 1.45 over a week ago, and today we’re announcing a hotfix for it, release 1.45.1. If you read the release notes for 1.45, or perused the 200+ issues closed for the release, you already know that we introduced numerou …