Azure SQL Managed Instance gains SQL Server 2025 update policy control. GA policy balances new engine features with operational stability governance. Enhanced update management supports enterprise ...

Microsoft releases SQL Server 2025 CU2 with bug fixes and performance improvements. Update addresses backup, disaster recovery, replication, storage and resource governor issues. Regular cumulative ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

Since most of us, especially on Neowin, use all our operating systems including Windows, Android, and their associated applications in English, we tend to forget that there are many regions which are ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server 2022] and later. This article describes how to authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID without setting up Azure Arc for your on-premises SQL Server 2022 and later versions. Microsoft ...

For the first time in 2025, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates did not bundle fixes for exploited security vulnerabilities, but the company acknowledged one of the addressed flaws had been publicly ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

This tutorial will guide you through the process of using SQL databases with Python, focusing on MySQL as the database management system. You will learn how to set up your environment, connect to a ...

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 ...