Patch Tuesday fixes 137 vulnerabilities, including critical flaws in SQL Server, Netlogon, Office, and the .NET Framework.

SQL Server 2019 builds on intelligent query processing features that were implemented in SQL Server 2017, and expands them to new areas of the database engine. Let's take a deeper dive into some ...

Related: SQL Server 2019 Is Here: A Roundup of Its Best Features Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key ...

SQL Server 2019 leverages PolyBase for full-on data virtualization and combines its Linux/container compatibility with Kubernetes (K8s) to deliver a new technology called Big Data Clusters (BDC).

SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters also retired last week – three years after the initial announcment on February 25, 2022. At ...

SQL Server 2019 now supports processing on Spark, HDFS, and similar computing cluster frameworks. Speaking of the database engine, the SQL Server development team continues to push for even better ...

Microsoft rolled out fixes for 130 security vulnerabilities, including a zero-day (CVE-2025-49719) in SQL Server.

SQL Server 2019 BDC seeks to integrate these two regions of the enterprise "data estate," allowing each to leverage the other. The co-location of SQL Server instances and Spark worker nodes will ...

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities. The company said v2019 creates a unified data platform by packaging ...

With CU5, Microsoft has focused on key capabilities to the SQL Server, along with Big Data Clusters. One of the main improvements is deployment for BDC on the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes platform.