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 ...

Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...

Index tuning is critical for the performance of modern database systems. Industrial index tuners, such as the Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) developed for Microsoft SQL Server, rely on the”what-if”API ...

A large amount of time and resources have been invested in making Python the most suitable first programming language for ...

New AI capabilities help DBAs move from performance visibility to performance resolution--turning slow queries into actionable index recommendations in minutes HOUSTON, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

For developers working with SQL Server, few performance tuning techniques are as essential--or as frequently misunderstood--as indexing. Done right, indexing can drastically improve application ...

How must databases adapt to generative AI, and how should databases be integrated with large language models (LLMs)? These are questions that Sailesh Krishnamurthy has grappled with for several years ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

As multinationals embed tax technology into their TP functions, a new breed of systems – built on multi-model databases – is quietly transforming intercompany pricing logic For transfer pricing ...