Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...

Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

As more organizations configure MCP servers to support agent-to-agent communication, upfront strategy, nonfunctional requirements, and security non-negotiables will guide safer deployments. One of the ...

Abstract: ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines are an essential part of real-time data warehousing because they help businesses process and analyze large volumes of data quickly. However, building ...

High-value organizations located in South, Southeast, and East Asia have been targeted by a Chinese threat actor as part of a years-long campaign. The activity, which has targeted aviation, energy, ...

Prototyping is my favorite part of programming. I like building new stuff and getting things working. It’s no surprise, then, that I am a big fan of MongoDB and NoSQL in general. Don’t get me wrong: I ...

This project implements an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline in Python using DuckDB to process and analyze log records (in JSON format). The system extracts the data, calculates usage and ...

Azure DevOps Server is now generally available, marking its transition to a production-ready on-premises offering for teams that need to self-host their DevOps platform. The GA release packages ...

Design and implement an end-to-end ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline using SQL for data extraction and transformation, and Python for orchestration and automation. Use any open dataset (e.g., ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 finally hit general availability today, following a private preview a year ago and a public preview back in May. That said, the AI-focused release is still in a public ...