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, ...

Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

On January 14, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the January Security Update patch, which fixed 112 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, ...

Implementing Bloom filters in Azure SQL, or any SQL Server environment, is an advanced technique that leverages the concept of Bloom filters for efficient querying, especially when dealing with large ...

Microsoft has decided to pull back support for Transport Layer Security versions 1.0 and 1.1 in upcoming Windows rollouts. Microsoft has decided to disallow Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 ...

Starting with the release of MS SQL Server 2016, the HASHBYTES function got an uplift where the input value didn't had any limitation of 8000 bytes. The use of (n)varchar /varbinary (max) as input ...

In Dynamics 365 2020 release wave 2, the hash function for the dimension framework in Dynamics 365 Finance has changed. This change may cause breaks in your production and test code in some scenarios.

These functions are used for identifying weak configurations that can lead to unauthorized access. Invoke-SQLAudit can be used to run all of them at once. Also, all of the audit functions support an ...

This blog post was authored by: Sahaj Saini, PM on the Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS) team. In this blog post, we’ll provide a quick overview of Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) vs.

The first installment of this TechRepublic series focused on C# developer interview questions. It generated a lively discussion on the merits of such questions and the different approaches to ...