Build a local graph of database schema objects, SQL artifacts, and relationships so agents can search, validate, analyze, and reason about database changes without storing business row data by default ...

SQL Server clustered columnstore does not have bad write performance, measured on Azure SQL Database using ExoBench. Bulk inserting 1M rows ran faster on columnstore than rowstore (3.3s vs 6.1s).

Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork automates multistep workflows using Work IQ, approvals, and enterprise security controls. Security Copilot’s Agentic Secret Finder detects exposed credentials in emails, ...

Companies are spending enormous sums of money on AI systems, and we are now at a point where there are credible alternatives to Nvidia GPUs as the compute engines within these systems. Given the ...

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

Delivering on performance promises made during its November launch, Microsoft has formally released Native Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) support for Windows Server 2025. This architectural ...

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

This month, we set out to compare our DAST against some of the established names in Dynamic Application Security Testing. We’ve already benchmarked our scanner on vulnerable apps like VAMPI and DVGA, ...

The first release candidate of .NET 10 is out, complete with a "go-live" license, meaning that Microsoft supports production use. The company has also detailed performance improvements in this ...

Snowflake has thousands of enterprise customers who use the company's data and AI technologies. Though many issues with generative AI are solved, there is still lots of room for improvement. Two such ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...