SQL Server: The traditional database engine, which also stores SSRS catalog data. SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS): A component for online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining.

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

Grzegorz Gogolowicz and Trent Swanson discuss how to work SQL Server Reporting Services and overlay data on report forms.

Beyond Relational Data SQL Server “Katmai” enables users to do the following: Manage any type of data including relational data, documents, geographic information and XML Work with a consistent set of ...

One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server's Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

Also released this week are SQL Server 2012 SP2 Report Builder, which supports report publishing and data visualizations, and SQL Server 2012 SP2 Feature Pack, which provides the latest tools and ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.