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 ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance gains SQL Server 2025 update policy control. GA policy balances new engine features with operational stability governance. Enhanced update management supports enterprise ...

A seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in building complex distributed data-intensive backend services. The most general way to satisfy a COUNT DISTINCT or SELECT DISTINCT clause is to ...

Transactional replication allows you to replicate data from one database to another hosted on either SQL Server or Azure SQL Managed Instance. SQL Managed Instance can be a publisher, distributor, or ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of multiple critical-severity security flaws affecting Coolify, an open-source, self-hosting platform, that could result in authentication bypass and ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

Discord now allows you to set up a 4-character tag that server members can choose to wear. The tag serves as an advertisement for your server, appearing beside their name. Anyone who clicks on it will ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Migration tools validate your source SQL Server instance by running several assessment rules. The rules identify issues that must be addressed before migrating your SQL Server database to Azure SQL ...