Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...

We’re excited to announce a new migration capability in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new capability, now generally available, is powered by Azure Database Migration ...

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 ...

Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. After spending 15 years as a SQL Server DBA, I've witnessed numerous technological evolutions, ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...

Abstract: Privacy-preserving collaborative data analysis is a popular research direction in recent years. Among all such analysis tasks, privacy-preserving SQL ...

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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, ...

At today's kickoff for Microsoft Ignite, the company announced that SQL Server 2025 is finally coming. No timing was announced for the release, but based on prior versions, I would expect to see a ...