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 ...

Azure Data Studio will officially be retired on February 28, 2026. Microsoft just announced the retirement in a blog post, recommending that all users try out the alternatives: Visual Studio Code and ...

At today's kickoff for Microsoft Ignite, the company announced that SQL Server 2025 is finally coming. No timing was announced for the release, but based on prior versions, I would expect to see a ...

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 ...

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 ...