Get started with documentation detailing how to install and upgrade both SQL Server and the services associated with it.

High availability, Disaster Recover, Always On Availability Group, Always On Failover Cluster Instance, Database Mirroring, Backup and Restore

Permissions, Access Management, Always Encrypted, TDE, SSL

Maintenance Plans, SQL Profiler, Automatic Tuning, In-memory OLTP, Partitions, Statistics, Indexes, Cardinality Estimation

Migration Assistants, Integration Services (SSIS), Import Export Wizard, Replication

Filestream, Filetable, Graph, Sequence Numbers, Spatial Data, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Track Changes, Views

Full-text search, Joins, Scripting, Synonyms, User-defined functions

Learn about the architectural internals of SQL Server with a series of guides and tutorials.

• Relational database concepts
• Connect with client applications on premises
• Azure SQL DB connectivity libraries
• Azure SQL DB applications

• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• Azure Data Studio
• SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
• Other SQL Tools

xQuery DMVs Powershell SQL Rest API

SQL .NET SDK API Transact-SQL (T-SQL) Database Samples Archived Content (SQL 2005-2012)

• SQL Server Reporting Services
• Power BI Service
• Power BI Report Server

• Microsoft Analytics Platform System
• SQL Server Analysis Services
• Azure Analysis Services
• PolyBase
• SQL Server 2019 big data clusters

• SQL Server Machine Learning Services (R and Python)
• SQL Server R Services
• Azure Machine Learning