Microsoft's challenge with Fabric lies in balancing the needs of data engineers and smaller Power BI-focused users, while addressing concerns around feature gaps, security and usability in its expansive analytics suite.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 01/22/2025
While Fabric has improved in the year since its release, there are still some glaring issues with the platform.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/19/2024
Expect the next generation of Microsoft's database platform to show up in preview sometime next year.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 11/19/2024
Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query."
- By Gladys Rama, David Ramel
- 10/29/2024
Microsoft is normally tight-lipped about Fabric's architecture, but it briefly bucked tradition earlier this month.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 10/23/2024
Security is everyone's job, but in a time when data is king, SQL Server admins play a more critical role than ever in their organizations' security postures.
The firehose of Microsoft Fabric announcements shows a once-clunky product finally hitting its stride. Here are the highlights.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 09/27/2024
SQL Server Expert Allan Hirt breaks down the hurdles organizations still face when keeping on top of patching and updates.
- By Gladys Rama, Chris Paoli
- 09/24/2024
Automation can make IT's job a lot more simple when it comes to database management. All is needed is to take that first step.
A year after it was first unveiled, the Oracle Database@Azure infrastructure-as-a-service offering from Oracle and Microsoft is getting significant new capabilities.
Microsoft has a commanding lead in the analytics/business intelligence (ABI) space, buoyed by its hyperfocus on AI and the robust development of its Copilot brand.
Frenemies Oracle and Microsoft are combining their respective cloud platforms to give generative AI wunderkind OpenAI more room to innovate.
Let's take a look at some of the bigger product and feature announcements made, and what it means for your enterprise database.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 05/21/2024
Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 05/15/2024
Microsoft announced the general availability of the "activity logs" capability in Microsoft Graph, giving administrators more options to track user activity and identify patterns of potential misuse.