Nearly every major product family needs immediate patching, from Windows to Office to Microsoft Edge, SQL Server, and even Microsoft Developer Tools. Windows admins are going to be busy this month, ...

[!INCLUDE ssEnterpriseEd10] and later versions support backup compression. When creating a log shipping configuration, you can control the backup compression behavior of log backups. For more ...

MSDN's SQL 2005 tool kit updated to 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 for detecting metadata in SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS and SSAS. This project is an update on the project released on MSDN ...

These days, the best iPhone apps can be a challenge to find, due to there being almost two million apps available to download in the App Store. You're usually reduced to checking the top charts to see ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Microsoft SQL Server Machine Learning Services is a feature that allows you to run Python, R, Java, and other Machine Learning languages in-database, using open-source packages and frameworks for ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution is usually not needed in modern networks and leaves the door open to man-in-the-middle attacks. Here's how to shut it off. I recently started deploying servers ...