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 ...

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Microsoft has announced the SQL Server 2025 preview, and this update is a big one for developers and IT teams. The Release Candidate 0 (RC0) introduces two major upgrades, including support for Ubuntu ...

Battlefield 6 is seeing an influx of players, which inevitably means queue times and, on rare occasions, downtimes for server maintenance. EA has some nifty tools for checking the server status of its ...

Donald Trump’s five-day golf trip to Scotland is expected to cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars, according to a new report. The president departed Joint Base Andrews in Maryland aboard Air Force ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I know this is going to sound nitpicky, but I get very slightly offended when I say “Thank you” to a server and they say “Of course.” It just feels weird, like a brush-off. It feels ...

We’re excited to announce a new migration experience in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new experience, now in preview, is powered by Azure Database Migration Service ...

For the first time in 2025, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates did not bundle fixes for exploited security vulnerabilities, but the company acknowledged one of the addressed flaws had been publicly ...

If you’re looking to level up your database management skills or get certified for the first time, this deal is worth a serious look. The 2025 Total Microsoft SQL Server Certification Bundle is ...