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 ...

Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

Sustainable Growth Advisers (SGA), an investment management company, released its fourth-quarter investor letter for its “U.S. Large Cap Growth Strategy.” A copy of the letter can be downloaded here.

Alibaba Tongyi Lab research team released ‘Zvec’, an open source, in-process vector database that targets edge and on-device retrieval workloads. It is positioned as ‘the SQLite of vector databases’ ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new generation of Azure virtual machines (VMs) built on AMD’s 5th Gen EPYC processors, designed for cloud, AI, and high-performance computing. The newly introduced Da/Ea/Fasv7 ...

The focus of this new AI accelerator is inference— the production deployment of AI models in applications. Its architecture combines high compute performance with a newly designed memory system and a ...

At the recent annual Ignite conference, Microsoft introduced a successor to Azure Cobalt 100 ARM processors: Cobalt 200, which delivers a 50% performance improvement and integrates with the latest ...

Microsoft unveiled Azure HorizonDB at the Ignite conference, a new fully managed, scalable, and high-throughput PostgreSQL cloud database in private preview. At the Ignite conference, Microsoft today ...

While demand for AI computing remains high, the economics are deteriorating for Amazon and Microsoft, which now must spend six times more capital to generate the same value as before, according to one ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...