Licensing models and costs have undergone significant changes over the past year, leaving companies at an expensive crossroads if they don’t modernise and manage their licensing effectively, writes ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix issues affecting Windows Server systems after installing the April ...

Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend ...

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Microsoft Security Response Center has confirmed that a SQL Server elevation of ...

Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

description Learn to design your first relational database in Azure SQL Database using the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. For the purpose of this tutorial, we are using Azure SQL Database.

Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it ...

A massive 4TB SQL Server backup file belonging to global accounting giant Ernst & Young (EY) was discovered publicly accessible on Microsoft Azure. The exposure, uncovered by cybersecurity firm Neo ...

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