The “Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string” error in SQL Server appears when SQL Server cannot interpret a text value as a ...

Built-in intelligence – SQL Server 2025 optimising performance and insight. Key takeaways SQL Server 2025 shifts optimisation from a reactive activity to an intelligence-driven discipline. Built-in ...

Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then be used to create AI ...

In 2024, the elephant in the room was how generative artificial intelligence seized the conversation. In 2025, the dialog shifted to agents and the question of whether there’s an AI bubble happening ...

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

The Microsoft SQL provider for the Durable Task Framework (DTFx) and Azure Durable Functions is a storage provider that persists all task hub state in a Microsoft SQL database, which can be hosted in ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

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