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, ...

Leonardo Boscaro, EMEA Sales Leader, Nutanix Database. In most large enterprises, the greatest concentration of operational complexity sits quietly inside SQL Server estates. Hundreds, and in some ...

[!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 ...

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This download will install a set of components that facilitate the transfer of data between existing Microsoft Office files such as Microsoft Office Access (*.mdb and .accdb) files and Microsoft ...

While Dapper provides excellent support for performing CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations efficiently, it does not have built-in support for bulk operations (i.e., bulk insert, bulk update ...

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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 ...

First off, let’s create an ASP.NET Core 7 project in Visual Studio 2022. Follow these steps: We’ll use this ASP.NET Core 7 Web API project to work with advanced features of Dapper in the sections ...

Abstract: Relational database management systems not only support larger-than-memory data processing and very advanced query optimization, but also offer the benefits of data security, privacy, and ...

The new ledger feature in SQL Server 2022 provides blockchain-based security to ensure data isn't tampered with. The ability to cryptographically guarantee the integrity of data is especially useful ...