In an effort to boost its AI investments, Microsoft has integrated AI tools into just about every part of the company’s operation, whether anyone wants it or not (and they mostly don’t). The result of ...

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Microsoft SQL Server installation is simple when system requirements and edition choices are planned. Choosing the right authentication mode, such as Windows Authentication, improves security and ...

This article guides you through enabling the Microsoft Entra-only authentication with Azure SQL feature within Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. If you are looking to provision a SQL ...

Transactional replication allows you to replicate data from one database to another hosted on either SQL Server or Azure SQL Managed Instance. SQL Managed Instance can be a publisher, distributor, or ...

In the future, updates for Windows 11 (24H2/25H2) and Server 2025 will receive separate KB numbers. This could streamline updates. Starting with the upcoming patch day on January 13, 2026, Microsoft ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hot on the heels of the NSA publishing a “high-risk of ...

Microsoft on Thursday deployed a reworked update for a critical vulnerability in the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) that has come under attack in the wild. CVE-2025-59287 is a remote code ...

I don’t use Microsoft Excel all that often, so it remains a bit of a mystery to me. I can enter text and create graphs and that’s basically it. That’s why I’ve set myself a goal to learn one new Excel ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

Microsoft has revealed some details about what's next for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Customers should expect multiple SSMS releases soon. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the tool of ...