This post was authored by Tara Raj and Vinson Yu, Program Managers – SQL Server Team We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The ...

A NodeJS-based SQL command line interface which is just what you need when you don't want to install an SQL client locally. This package lets you connect to any SQL server* and execute queries. Query ...

Create the resource group that will contain the server. You can edit the next command to use any valid location. For a list of valid Azure SQL Database server locations run the following cmdlet: ...

SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

Finally, restart the SQL Server service: sudo systemctl start mssql-server You’ve just provisioned a SQL Server 2017 virtual machine in Azure! You can connect to it locally with sqlcmd to run Transact ...

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...