This project provides Redis utility functions for IBM i, enabling seamless interaction with a Redis server through SQL User-Defined Functions (UDFs). It includes the following functions: Built with a ...

Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension’s ransomware ...

I will first provide a conceptual explanation of SQL Tuning Advisor, which is part of the Tuning Pack (CONTROL_MANAGEMENT_PACK_ACCESS=DIAGNOSTIC+TUNING), and then we will perform an example using the ...

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 ...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems became famous at the turn of the millennium, mostly due to their support for direct file sharing among users. In the 80s, the music industry had already evolved from selling ...

ESET researchers have recently discovered a new undocumented modular backdoor, SideWalk, being used by an APT group we've named SparklingGoblin; this backdoor was used during one of SparklingGoblin's ...

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 ...

One of the most interesting trends in the computer world during the past few years has been the rapid growth of NoSQL databases. The term may be accurate, in that NoSQL databases don't use SQL in ...

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.