Microsoft’s monthly update included 206 fixes for flaws in everything from Windows to Office to Exchange Server, not to mention three zero-days.

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 ...

Kyuubi provides a pure SQL gateway through Thrift JDBC/ODBC interface for end-users to manipulate large-scale data with pre-programmed and extensible Spark SQL engines. This "out-of-the-box" model ...

The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, ...

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been a go-to patch management tool for over two decades, providing IT administrators with a way to distribute Microsoft updates across their environments.

Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. I still remember the morning our CTO walked into our weekly team meeting and dropped the bomb: ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...