A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Microsoft's SQL Server software, used in thousands of businesses ranging from storefront operations to multinational companies, has capabilities to bulk-insert Comma Separated Value files into a ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

In November 2024, we announced the next major release of SQL Server: SQL Server 2025. SQL Server 2025, now in private preview, includes capabilities to build AI applications including vector and AI ...

The Compute Express Link (CXL), which is based on PCI Express (PCIe) from generation 5, is slowly picking up speed: Some new products are appearing. Smart Modular has announced the CXA-4F1W and ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Today, we announced the general availability of SQL Server 2022, the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet, with continued innovation across performance ...

I've found that when adding a list of entities that get assigned Identities by the Db the bulk insert assigns the Id's in reverse order. IE, add three entities to a list with Name and Id field, names ...

For SQL Server, a runtime exception is thrown and you cannot save changes on a DbContext when trying to insert more than one of the same type of entity if that entity has an underlying varchar column ...