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Joey on SQL Server
Despite a smaller floor presence, Microsoft jumped out of the gate with some big announcements for IT and database managers.
10/12/2022
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Joey on SQL Server
An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception.
08/29/2022
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Microsoft last week announced the release of SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate (RC) 0.
08/29/2022
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Microsoft and database maker Oracle announced on Wednesday that their joint Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure is now generally available.
07/20/2022
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SQL Server 2012 is no longer a supported product, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
07/12/2022
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Joey on SQL Server
Microsoft's Asad Khan breaks down some details on the recently announced feature.
06/27/2022
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Microsoft this week noted that its SQL Server 2022 public preview, made available late last month, can now be tried on some Linux distros.
06/03/2022
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Joey on SQL Server
It's time. Make your life a lot easier by automating those time-intensive tasks.
06/03/2022
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Joey on SQL Server
Build 2022 marks the long-awaited public preview of Microsoft's next-generation database engine. Here are the top seven new SQL Server 2022 features to look out for.
05/24/2022
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The Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) service now works with SQL Server data, and can be applied using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), according to a Monday Microsoft announcement.
04/18/2022
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SQL Server 2022 is nearing a public preview release, Microsoft announced on Monday.
04/12/2022
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Joey on SQL Server
Here's how Microsoft can make data migration easier on us.
03/25/2022
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Microsoft announced late last month that it'll be ending support for two SQL Server capabilities, with cloud services and SQL Server 2022 typically proposed as replacements.
03/09/2022
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Joey on SQL Server
Getting a bird's eye view can help to quickly spot trouble areas.
02/23/2022
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Joey on SQL Server
Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it.
01/21/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the "general availability" (GA) commercial release of the Flexible Server deployment option for the Azure Database for PostgreSQL service.
11/30/2021
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Joey on SQL Server
The next major version of Microsoft's flagship database engine is now in private preview. Here's what you need to know about it.
11/02/2021
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Joey on SQL Server
Time to hit the basics and dive into how theSQL Server database engine works.
10/28/2021
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Joey on SQL Server
Here's how to fix that performance database query to speed up response time.
09/28/2021
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Microsoft recently described Eclipse Data Connector (EDC) progress, along with its efforts to align cross-organizational data-sharing needs with Europe-based privacy and security laws.
09/22/2021
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Some SQL Server features are good, some are great -- and some are great only in the right situations and in the right hands. Learn how to spot the difference.
09/22/2021
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According to a five-year study by California-based security firm Imperva Inc., 46 percent of all global on-premises databases have existing flaws that can be leveraged by outside attackers.
09/15/2021
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A Microsoft data platform MVP on the state of SQL Server today -- how it's evolved in Microsoft's Azure-first word, the best features to emerge in recent years and troubleshooting gotchas.
09/14/2021
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Microsoft warned thousands of Azure Cosmos DB users last week that their data may have been exposed through a recently discovered security flaw in Jupyter Notebook.
08/30/2021
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Joey on SQL Server
As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives.
08/25/2021