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Change Event Streaming (CES) in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL enables event-driven architectures by streaming JSON records from table activity to Azure Event Hub, with Entra support now available in ...

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Microsoft SQL Server installation is simple when system requirements and edition choices are planned. Choosing the right authentication mode, such as Windows Authentication, improves security and ...

Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

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 ...

Today at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft introduced SQL database in Fabric. This relational database service runs in the context of a Fabric capacity. SQL database in Fabric is built on the Azure SQL ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

Note that I’m using one of the new DAX Info functions, INFO.STORAGETABLECOLUMNS(), instead of the older DMV syntax I was using last year; I think the DAX Info functions are a lot more convenient to ...