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 ...

USB flash drives are portable data storage options that allow users to store and move files between computers and other devices. Unintentional deletions, virus assaults, formatting errors, or system ...

Working with CSV files in Excel often involves repetitive imports and manual updates, which can be both time-consuming and error-prone. Leila Gharani introduces a practical solution using Excel’s ...

Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- Google is booting up its highly touted plans to build data center facilities in Chesterfield County. The tech giant recently filed a site plan for the data center campus ...

Having slow database queries can be frustrating, even if your indexes are in good shape. To troubleshoot and improve performance, start by examining the actual query plan. Sometimes, SQL Server may ...

The Gemini app finally supports audio uploads on Android, iOS, and the web for expanded file analysis options. Open Gemini’s ‘plus’ menu for “Files” (mobile) or “Upload files” (web) and select any ...

Import a Firebird 1 database to pandas dataframes, show a summary of the database table names, field names, field data types, and index columns, optionally extract and save table data to a directory, ...

A publicly accessible configuration file for ASP.NET Core applications has been leaking credentials for Azure ActiveDirectory (AD), potentially allowing cyberattackers to authenticate directly via ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here.