This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

Microsoft's policy of inserting Copilot into every corner of its portfolio is on brief hiatus, at least in the first preview of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22. The ultimate plan is to shift to ...

Abstract: In recent years, federated learning (FL) has continued to evolve with the advent of big data and the large language model (LLM), but it has also exposed numerous security and privacy issues.

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 ...

Open the profile menu. It includes "Developer Command Prompt for VS 21" and "Developer PowerShell for VS 21". Select one of them. These profiles should not be generated, because SSMS 21 does not ...

If you followed the FIFA Club World Cup until its conclusion this past weekend, you're not alone. While the world watched the tournament throughout the summer, a group of FIU students learned ...

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.

Note that vswhere does not include SSMS in its output, so whatever logic it is using may make sense to include in NuGet.exe. Using the -MsBuildPath argument and pointing to Visual Studio (from running ...

A public preview of SQL Server 2025 adds new vector capabilities already found in rival databases, along with JSON support and change event streaming. Microsoft is moving SQL Server 2025 into public ...