I've been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to the data tier. Writing the ...

Database estates are growing and evolving fast. Most IT teams now manage a mix of on-premises servers, cloud deployments, containers, and services spread across different platforms. For IT managers, ...

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 ...

Multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) is a database optimization technique. MVCC creates duplicate copies of records so that data can be safely read and updated at the same time. With MVCC, database ...

“We’ve deployed Azure Arc across 2,200 of our database servers. It has helped us simplify the management of our infrastructure, and we now have better visibility into which versions of SQL Server ...

This T-SQL script focuses on analyzing the "query_processing" components of SQLDiag files, or the "sp_server_diagnostics_component_result" events (such as in the "system_health" XE session). This can ...

Resolving buffer busy wait events in an Oracle database can be vital to your optimization efforts. Insight into the causes of this performance problem is provided in this examination by Oracle guru ...