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 ...

See Configuring Claude Desktop / Claude Code for examples. A comprehensive Microsoft SQL Server client implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This server provides extensive SQL Server ...

Database performance tuning is a critical process for ensuring efficient data retrieval, storage, and management in modern relational database management systems (RDBMS). This article provides a ...

Google is adding new features to its fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) AlloyDB in order to provide enterprises with an alternative to PostgreSQL, which has become the most popular choice ...

You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you ...

Here, I am going to discuss some basic and most important configurations of the SQL Server Instance and Database Level which might be ignored and can cause performance issues. Although this is not the ...

The heart of any relational database management system is the system catalog that documents the database objects and system settings being used. The system catalog offers a wealth of information about ...

The first installment of this TechRepublic series focused on C# developer interview questions. It generated a lively discussion on the merits of such questions and the different approaches to ...

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 ...