Microsoft is getting more aggressive about insisting that you use its OneDrive cloud for your Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 files. If you'd prefer to keep those files out of the cloud, follow these ...

SSMS 22 Preview debuts soon with new features, while SSMS 21.5 update delivers key fixes and performance improvements.

Signal users will soon be able to save end-to-end encrypted backups of their chat history in a secure archive, making it ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

Keep using SSMS for administration tasks, even though VS Code should be the main replacement for ADS. Lose productivity when managing SQL Server across different platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux).

SQL Exporter is a configuration driven exporter that exposes metrics gathered from DBMSs, for use by the Prometheus monitoring system. Out of the box, it provides support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, ...

The first release candidate (RC0) of SQL Server 2025 is now available. As we move toward general availability, our focus shifts to delivering enhanced stability, performance, and product improvements ...

Text-to-SQL is a fundamental natural language processing (NLP) task that involves translating natural language queries related to a specified relational database into SQL queries. Recently, large ...

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