If you've worked in any data-centric role, you've probably experienced the effects of the proverbial "mandate from on high." Someone in the C-suite decides it's time to hop on the latest shift in the ...

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. I ...

Citing limited benefit and existing recordkeeping requirements, OSHA ends its rulemaking effort to add a musculoskeletal disorders column to the OSHA 300 Log. OSHA has officially withdrawn its ...

When trying to install SolidWorks on a Windows computer, you may encounter an issue when the installation is trying to install Microsoft SQL Server. So, the installation works fine until it reaches ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

Add EFCore support (or documentation) for enabling AlwaysEncrypted w/ SQL Server. I develop medical device software, and encryption of patient health information (PHI) is critical. My product is using ...

Adding a ulong property that maps to a rowversion column via value conversion fails: Defaults cannot be created on columns of data type timestamp.. This is because for ulong properties, the column is ...

The $4-trillion U.S. healthcare system is so vast and so complex, any discussion of changing things can (and will) get quickly bogged down in hard-to-address policy details. So let’s focus on just one ...

For some victims, patching and proper forensics will be difficult, plus new threat actors are now exploiting the same Exchange Server vulnerabilities. On March 2, Microsoft revealed a critical ...