As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

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Microsoft announced today that it will integrate Sysmon natively into Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 next year, making it unnecessary to deploy the standalone Sysinternals tools. "Next year, ...

Microsoft has announced the release of SQL Server Management Studio Preview 3, which brings many features, including "initial" support for ARM64. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the tool of ...

Abstract: Aggregation functions such as COUNT, SUM, AVG, MAX, and MIN are basic tools for summarizing data in SQL. However, their behavior can be affected by several factors such as the occurrence of ...

Choosing between Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft SQL Server resulted in us having to decide between two good options. Microsoft Digital stories Editor’s note: This story was created with the help of ...

Hackers have started to exploit a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Wing FTP Server just one day after technical details on the flaw became public. The observed attack ran multiple ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most exciting advancements is the ability to enrich existing databases with semantic understanding through vector search ...