Patch Tuesday fixes 137 vulnerabilities, including critical flaws in SQL Server, Netlogon, Office, and the .NET Framework.

Microsoft this month pushed out 133 patches for a broad swatch of software and apps and plugged a zero-day flaw in SQL Server ...

Joey on SQL Server. A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1. An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to ...

If you only want to update values in table A when there are matching records in table B, then an inner join is the way to go. If you have calculations that need to vary based on optional data, the ...

That's great for speeding up processing the next time that query shows up because the plan for the query can simply be pulled from the cache. However, there are any number of queries in any ...

Cumulative Update 7 for SQL Server 2019 is plagued by a known reliability issue affecting the database snapshot feature according to a Microsoft blog post spotted by The Register.

SQL Advisor. Query SQL Server with PowerShell. Get the right information on your SQL Servers via the Get-Service cmdlet. ... Most DBAs are already familiar with SQLCMD, introduced with SQL Server 2005 ...