Like Pudding Pops and Benetton sweaters, another 1980s icon is gone. After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" is going ...

Vector embeddings on SQL Server Keeping the 35-year-old SQL Server relevant in the AI age, the 2025 edition, now in public preview, has been expanded to include vector database functionality.

When a SQL Server database enters recovery mode, it normally resolves itself after three important phases: analysis, redo, and undo. However, there are times when the recovery procedure is not ...

Inside the Session What: Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database When: March 12, 2025, 4 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Who: Jerry Nixon, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, and Davide Mauri ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced SQL Server Stretch Database in 2016, our guiding principles for such hybrid data storage solutions have always been affordability, security, and native Azure ...

Copilot for Azure SQL Database has limited private preview and no pricing information. Microsoft has indicated to me that this will be a paid offering but has offered no pricing model.

Azure Synapse Link for SQL: Previously, moving data from on-premises databases, like SQL Server, to Synapse required using extract, transform, and load (ETL). Configuring and running an ETL pipeline ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...

Joey on SQL Server Everything You Need To Know About Azure SQL Database Emulator Microsoft's Asad Khan breaks down some details on the recently announced feature. By Joey D'Antoni 06/27/2022 ...

This is when you need to focus on automation tools like Windows PowerShell. To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages.

Also read: At Ignite, Microsoft enhances its cloud database, warehouse and lake services While the previous release (SQL Server 2019) focused on core features like Azure Data Studio, Big Data ...