Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...

Effective prompts use four core elements. Start by assigning a role, then give background context, state a clear task with an ...

Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...

Leonardo Boscaro, EMEA Sales Leader, Nutanix Database. In most large enterprises, the greatest concentration of operational complexity sits quietly inside SQL Server estates. Hundreds, and in some ...

Starting with versions 7.4 TR3 and 7.3 TR9, DB2 for IBM i provides the ability to directly read and write IFS files. Here, we will look at some examples of how to read IFS files using "pure" SQL or ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert ...

The word 'dementia' describes a set of symptoms that over time can affect memory, problem-solving, language and behaviour. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. Dementia is a group ...

The SQL interface specification for SAP ecosystem defines a standard document format for describing and publishing metadata of database-level API resources of a (database) server to allow consumers to ...

DBCC CLONEDATABASE command generates a schema-only clone or copy of a database. Effective March 1, 2025, Microsoft will no longer support creating copy of a database using the DBCC CLONEDATABASE ...

COMMENTARY In late 2023, I wrote an article comparing how well ChatGPT and Google Bard handle writing security policies. Given that ChatGPT 4.0 has been available as a paid version, called ChatGPT ...

In my recent article I've reported about a nice free alternative to manage SQL databases, which, from the same UI can manage also MySQL databases. I thought that it might be a good idea to actually ...