Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

This week, we are excited to kick off SQLCon 2026 alongside FabCon in Atlanta. Bringing these SQL and Fabric communities together creates a unique opportunity to learn, connect, and share what’s next ...

Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then be used to create AI ...

Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

Microsoft has moved its Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to General Availability, signaling a shift toward standardized, identity-secure agentic workflows. By integrating ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

It shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a lot of Azure you can run on premises, thanks to platforms like Azure Stack. But there’s more to on-premises Azure than the familiar platforms and services.

Veeam described how it rearchitected its data platform to move beyond traditional backup and recovery, using Azure Cosmos DB as the foundation for an AI-powered semantic search system. In a ...

Hi team/ maintainers, I love the work you're doing on Data API Builder. We’ve adopted it in different areas because it gives us a unified, secure, and standards-based API layer on top of multiple data ...

Shenzhen, September 16, 2025 — The 2025 Billie Jean King Cup (BJK Cup) Finals officially kicked off today at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center, marking the tournament’s debut in China. As the world’s ...