Microsoft releases cumulative updates for SQL Server 2025 and SQL Server 2022 environments. Updates improve database reliability, query processing, performance and operational stability for ...

Microsoft has introduced a new upgrade path for Windows Server 2025, allowing administrators to perform in-place upgrades directly through Windows Update, removing the need for installation media and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hot on the heels of the NSA publishing a “high-risk of ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Every security team’s nightmare came true over the weekend: a ...

Microsoft this month pushed out 133 patches for a broad swatch of software and apps and plugged a zero-day flaw in SQL Server. With 133 patches in its Patch Tuesday update this month, Microsoft ...

Microsoft has confirmed a widespread issue in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) that prevents organizations from syncing with Microsoft Update and deploying the latest Windows updates. Windows ...

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 ...

Today is Microsoft's July 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 137 flaws, including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server. This Patch Tuesday also ...

Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. This DMV tracks how often indexes — including heap tables (which have index_id = 0) — are used ...

In this post, we will go step by step into several aspects of Change Data Capture, a feature that is available on the Azure SQL Managed Instance and Microsoft SQL Server. The focus will be on the ...