Microsoft's new stable release expands backup, recovery and Terraform support, with new security defaults and breaking changes for existing integrations.

So, to test it myself, I added a full-text index to a column containing street names (so therefore fairly short strings) in a semantic model containing data from my favourite public data source, the ...

Intermediate SQL tutorial demonstrating REGEXP for advanced filtering, IF & CASE statements to create categories, SUBQUERIES ...

The theme for this time is SQL "execution plans."Execution plans are one of the technologies you absolutely must understand when considering database performance.However, this content might also be a ...

SQL Server Management Studio can help take the guesswork out of creating connection strings for PowerShell applications.

Massive Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have become the norm and October may actually have broken records, fixing over 1,400 vulnerabilities in Windows. This comes just a month after the company ...

Hard SQL interview questions test the advanced problem solving skills expected in many medium and senior level data analyst ...

The content of this article might be a bit difficult for those with no programming experience.This is because, in my ...

As a follow-on from last week’s post about the new ApproximateDistinctCount function in DAX, I want to share something I found out from my recent testing for this function: ApproximateDistinctCount is ...

Hackers abused a Microsoft SQL Server to run commands, steal credentials and source code, and move files in a Viva Aerobus-linked attack.

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right rows, and moved on. That's normal and it's also exactly why so many ...

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