A few years ago I wrote this post on the subject of staging in Fabric Dataflows Gen2. In it I explained what staging is, how you can enable it for a query inside a Dataflow, and discussed the pros and ...

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 ...

Built-in functions, UDFs, materialized results, and integrations with ML and AI models make streaming SQL a compelling choice when building microservices. “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is ...

Abstract: Nowadays, businesses generate large volumes of data that must be stored in a reliable database. Among the available options, relational database management systems (RDBMS) are widely adopted ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

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 ...

See Configuring Claude Desktop / Claude Code for examples. A comprehensive Microsoft SQL Server client implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This server provides extensive SQL Server ...

Organizations are using generative AI to stay ahead of the competition, but the real advantage lies in harnessing the power of your own data securely and at scale. One of the most exciting new ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...