With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

TIOBE Programming Index News October 2025: C Edges Past C++ as SQL Returns to the Top 10 Your email has been sent The October 2025 TIOBE Index saw a reshuffling beneath Python’s still-commanding lead.

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

In this Microsoft SQL Server and JDBC tutorial, you'll learn how to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server in Java using JDBC. The steps are relatively straightforward: Each database is different, so ...

Some Windows users encountered Server error code 801c03ed during Windows Autopilot device enrollment. If you face this error, then this post will help you. Following ...

Microsoft has decided to pull back support for Transport Layer Security versions 1.0 and 1.1 in upcoming Windows rollouts. Microsoft has decided to disallow Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 ...

Tutorial: Using automation to set up the Microsoft Entra admin for SQL Server [!INCLUDE SQL Server 2022] Note This feature is available in [!INCLUDE sssql22-md] or later versions, and is only ...

Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language. The new tool joins similar ...

For over two decades, the C# programming language has allowed developers to build secure and robust applications within the .NET ecosystem. SQL Server 2019 supports the R, Python, and Java Language ...