SQL Server technical documentation Technical documentation to help you get started, administer, develop, and work with SQL Server and associated products.
A collection of tutorials and quickstarts meant to teach you to use SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.
Applies to: SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Applications and tools connect to a SQL Server instance or database, and communicate using Transact-SQL (T-SQL). SQL Server is one of many products and platforms that runs the Microsoft SQL Database Engine.
Create a database in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL. View recommendations for the procedure.
Connect to a SQL Server instance in SSMS. Create and query a SQL Server database in SSMS running basic Transact-SQL (T-SQL) queries.
Learn how to use the Visual Studio installer to install SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
Learn about new features for SQL Server 2025 (17.x), which gives you choices of development languages, data types, environments, and operating systems.
What's New in SQL Server 2025 - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn
Queries Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure Synapse Analytics Analytics Platform System (PDW) SQL analytics endpoint in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric SQL database in Microsoft Fabric Data Manipulation Language (DML) is a vocabulary used to retrieve and work with data in SQL Server and SQL Database. Most also work in Azure Synapse ...
Network World: Universal Health Care for SQL Server? SQL Profiler – 2008 style…
SQL Server Profiler has always been a great tool for tracing activity “under the hood” on a SQL Server and assessing its performance. One feature that helps us quickly set up a trace on our current ...