Azure Functions shipped a serverless agents runtime in public preview at Build 2026. Agents are defined in .agent.md markdown ...

Learn how forward swaps can be used to exchange cash flows or assets at a future date, along with their role in hedging risks ...

The most useful Excel date functions handle everyday workflows like countdowns, working days, and month-based planning ...

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, ...

Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see how much easier ...

Abstract: In this article, an accelerated value iteration-based safe Q-learning (SQL) algorithm is developed to design the tracking controller for unknown nonlinear systems. First, an augmented ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

In one of the previous articles, we explained the difference between the two SQL-flavored pools in Azure Synapse Analytics, and, what’s even more important, in which scenario it makes sense to use ...

The Morris worm of 1988 was one of those industry-shaking experiences that revealed how quickly a worm could spread using a vulnerability known as a buffer overflow or buffer overrun. Around 6,000 of ...

Efficient communication with the database server without need for foreign libraries. Support for UTF-8 on Unicode-aware Lisp implementations A syntax for mixing SQL and Lisp code Convenient support ...