In yet another instance of threat actors quickly jumping on the exploitation bandwagon, a newly disclosed critical security flaw in BerriAI's LiteLLM Python package has come under active exploitation ...

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 ...

Following on from my post two weeks ago about how to get the details of Power BI operations seen in the Capacity Metrics App using the OperationId column on the Timepoint Detail page, I thought it was ...

In July 2025, Microsoft will discontinue support for the Microsoft Connector for Oracle in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). This blog provides essential details to help customers prepare for ...

Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked a new malware strain dubbed PG_MEM that's designed to mine cryptocurrency after brute-forcing their way into PostgreSQL database instances. "Brute-force attacks ...

Are you tired of wrestling with manual data transfers between SQL Server databases? This newsletter introduces you to the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard, a powerful tool that simplifies and ...

DBCC CLONEDATABASE command generates a schema-only clone or copy of a database. Effective March 1, 2025, Microsoft will no longer support creating copy of a database using the DBCC CLONEDATABASE ...

Usage: db-to-sqlite [OPTIONS] CONNECTION PATH Load data from any database into SQLite. PATH is a path to the SQLite file to create, e.c. /tmp/my_database.db ...

The SQL Server transaction log and the respective log sequence numbers (LSNs) play an important role in recovering deleted table data. A transaction log records all the transactions, data ...

If you’re using DirectQuery mode for one or more tables in your Power BI dataset, the chances are that you will want to see the SQL (or whatever query language your DirectQuery data source uses) that ...