Microsoft's new stable release expands backup, recovery and Terraform support, with new security defaults and breaking changes for existing integrations.

So, to test it myself, I added a full-text index to a column containing street names (so therefore fairly short strings) in a semantic model containing data from my favourite public data source, the ...

The theme for this time is SQL "execution plans."Execution plans are one of the technologies you absolutely must understand when considering database performance.However, this content might also be a ...

SQL Server Management Studio can help take the guesswork out of creating connection strings for PowerShell applications.

Massive Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have become the norm and October may actually have broken records, fixing over 1,400 vulnerabilities in Windows. This comes just a month after the company ...

The content of this article might be a bit difficult for those with no programming experience.This is because, in my ...

As a follow-on from last week’s post about the new ApproximateDistinctCount function in DAX, I want to share something I found out from my recent testing for this function: ApproximateDistinctCount is ...

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right rows, and moved on. That's normal and it's also exactly why so many ...

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The SQL Server Amazon Machine Images (AMI) is built, updated, and fully-patched by AWS within five business days of Microsoft's patch Tuesday (the second Tuesday of each month). Launching an instance ...

Microsoft's September 2026 cumulative updates are causing Remote Desktop Services failures on Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 systems, cutting off connections and, in the most severe cases, forcing ...

PostgreSQL subqueries allow one SQL query to run inside another, making it possible to solve filtering, aggregation, comparison, and table based problems without writing separate queries. The lesson ...