This is a performance testing framework for Spark SQL in Apache Spark 2.2+. The framework contains twelve benchmarks that can be executed in local mode. They are organized into three classes and ...

A cron job that worked perfectly for six months suddenly runs two hours early. A payment dashboard shows yesterday's revenue in today's column. Session tokens expire at unpredictable times. These bugs ...

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 ...

It’s the week of Fabcon Europe and you’re about to be overwhelmed with new Fabric feature announcements. However there is a new blink-and-you’ll-miss-it feature that appeared in the latest version of ...

Microsoft security researchers recently identified a campaign where attackers attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through a SQL Server instance. This attack technique demonstrates an ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Time series data is a set of values organized in the order in which they occur and arrive for processing. Unlike transactional data in SQL Server, which is not ...

Starting from SQL Server 2016, the conversion / comparison process of datetime to datetime2 (and vice versa) has been modfied. Unfortunately, this is a breaking change for many of our existing ...

Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation. In a previous TechRepublic column about SQL Server ...