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This article describes how to create a database in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL. To create a database in Azure SQL Database using T-SQL, see CREATE DATABASE. A maximum of 32,767 databases can be …

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Sep 4, 2024 · 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). You can install SQL Server on Windows or Linux, deploy it in a Linux container, or deploy it on an Azure Virtual Machine or other virtual machine platform.

SQL Server 2022, now generally available, is the most Azure-enabled release yet and offers continued enhancements to security and performance, providing a modern data platform for hybrid scenarios.

Nov 22, 2024 · Learn about database schemas, tables, filegroups, logins, and roles. See how you can use the SQL Server Management Studio tool to work with databases.

Microsoft SQL Server (Structured Query Language) is a proprietary relational database management system developed by Microsoft.

Apr 4, 2024 · Start learning about Microsoft SQL Server a relational database management system including SSIS, SSRS, Power BI, SSAS, T-SQL and more.

Azure SQL Database is available as a single database with its own set of resources managed via a logical server, and as a pooled database in an elastic pool with a shared set of resources managed through a logical server.

Feb 4, 2025 · Decades ago, you could ask the database server what you want in plain English, and get results back. Microsoft was way ahead of their time when they brought this feature out in SQL Server 6.5, and eventually removed it by 2005. The technology just wasn’t capable enough yet, but the idea was so good that it has to make this list.