Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

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At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

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In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

The SQL Repay tool was created since SQL Server's Replay feature is based on SQL Server Profiler traces rather than SQL Server Extended Events. Other key features of the SQL Replay tool: We don't want ...