On March 11, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the March Security Update patch, which fixed 83 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft ...

Monitoring database health is essential for maintaining optimal performance in any SQL Server environment. One of the most powerful built-in mechanisms for tracking performance is SQL Server ...

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Today is Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 79 flaws, including 2 publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. This Patch Tuesday also addresses three "Critical" ...

The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, ...

As a SQL Server administrator, one of the most critical performance issues I encounter is memory pressure. It can manifest in two primary forms: memory grant pressure (queries competing for execution ...

This is a dotnet core project so it will work on any platform. On Windows you might need to authorize the app to use the port. sys.dm_os_performance_counters sys.dm ...

Microsoft has released cumulative updates for Windows 10 versions 1909, 1903, and 1809 today. The biggest news for 1909 and 1903 is the backporting of WSL2. There are also other fixes. A little more ...

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