Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...

MSC runs one of the most geographically distributed IT environments in the world. For years, data was generated and managed locally across countries and regions, making it difficult to consolidate ...

Every growing business hits this wall at some point. The application that worked perfectly six months ago now takes forever to load. Users start complaining. The dev team blames the server. The ...

An ad hoc query is a one-time, unique query, often generated by applications that don't use parameterized statements or by data analysts running bespoke reports. When SQL Server encounters these, it ...

See Configuring Claude Desktop / Claude Code for examples. A comprehensive Microsoft SQL Server client implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This server provides extensive SQL Server ...

Microsoft is protecting Recall’s vector indexes in trusted execution environments. It adds a bit of computational overhead, but is a must for data security. Recently Microsoft announced efforts to ...

A database is an essential component of any modern application, providing a repository for storing and retrieving large amounts of information. Building a database can seem daunting, but it can be ...

Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it. As a consultant, I work on wide swaths of database systems, which means I get to see many, many SQL statements ...

Welcome to self-paced labs to learn SQL Server on Linux and Docker Containers. To use these self-paced labs you must go through installation of Linux and tools by going through the prelab. Follow the ...

THE European Commission has stepped into the row over the plan to run the M50 motorway through the archaeological remains of Carrickmines Castle in Co Dublin. The Commission has written to the Irish ...