Microsoft delivered fixes for issues affecting everything from Windows to Office, .NET, and SQL Server, and several patches that should be deployed ASAP. Microsoft this week released 139 updates ...

The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, ...

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.

The increasing adoption of AI technologies is presenting new challenges for our customers’ data estate and applications. Most organizations expect to deploy AI workloads across a hybrid mix of cloud, ...

Anchal Katyal is SDM @ Amazon & an expert in building large scale software applications. The exponential growth of data and the increasing demand for real-time and data-driven applications have ...

I am starting this new year the same way I ended the last: taking antibiotics because my biological daughter brought home a nasty sinus bug from Carnegie Mellon’s preschool. This was after my first ...

A database is an essential component of any modern application, providing a repository for storing and retrieving large amounts of information. Building a database can seem daunting, but it can be ...

Welcome to this Microsoft solutions workshop on SQL Server 2019 Workshop. In this course you will learn how to solve modern data challenges with SQL Server 2019 using a hands-on lab approach. This ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of SQL Server 2022. Anyone can now download SQL Server 2022 preview to try the new features in this ...