While Microsoft sweeps the confetti off the floor of its Build event, it may be a good moment to reflect on what it didn't say as much as what it did. Taking the spotlight was AI agent Scout, ready to ...

A command-line tool that inspects the TLS certificate and Kerberos configuration of a SQL Server instance. Connects at the raw TDS protocol level and captures the certificate from the TLS handshake ...

Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...

Paul McNally has been around consoles and computers since his parents bought him a Mattel Intellivision in 1980. He has been a prominent games journalist… Chicago’s long-running casino project hit a ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log File System hardening with signature verification. The team at Readiness each ...

It shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a lot of Azure you can run on premises, thanks to platforms like Azure Stack. But there’s more to on-premises Azure than the familiar platforms and services.

Learn how to use in-memory caching, distributed caching, hybrid caching, response caching, or output caching in ASP.NET Core to boost the performance and scalability of your minimal API applications.

At today's kickoff for Microsoft Ignite, the company announced that SQL Server 2025 is finally coming. No timing was announced for the release, but based on prior versions, I would expect to see a ...

A South West England authority continues to suffer control weaknesses in its ERP system after the council delayed the project by more than a year and more than doubled the expected costs.

You can run the [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] Import and Export Wizard directly through [!INCLUDE ssManStudioFull] (SSMS). To run the wizard outside of SSMS, you need to ...