Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...

Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

Software Engineer - Published Author - Developer Relations Engineer at MariaDB plc When you develop generative AI applications, you typically introduce three additional components to your ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

In order to access geometry data from OGR, the PostGIS extension has to be installed: if it is not installed, geometry will be represented as bytea columns, with well-known binary (WKB) values. To ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced adding WITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...