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 article describes how to use the bcp utility to create a format file for a particular table. The format file is based on the data-type option specified (-n, -c, -w, or -N) and the table or view ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. There are a large number of utilities for generating test data. But in some cases, you may wish to generate this data ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

In announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately. A Copilot for the tool that helps users manage, ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...