When I (along with many other people) had a lot of trouble trying to install SQL Server Management Studio in an attempt to switch from the SQL Server 2008 R2 evaluation to the free Express version, I ...

Change Event Streaming (CES) in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL enables event-driven architectures by streaming JSON records from table activity to Azure Event Hub, with Entra support now available in ...

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

Here, you will find a number of tools that we use when supporting our customers to help find solutions to problems faster and easier. These tools all run locally and do not use any external services ...

How Does Microsoft Use Business Intelligence? Thanks to Microsoft’s BI solutions, data can be prepared and modeled with ease, thanks to its integrated automation and intelligence capabilities.

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

In this article, we are presenting information regarding SQL Server Error 823, including the contributing factors of it and how to resolve it. You could try using an ...

As an engineer with over two decades of experience in SQL Server, I've encountered my fair share of inefficiencies and limitations within SSMS. Motivated by these challenges, I started developing the ...

First, in alignment with the announcement of preview for SQL Server 2022, we released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19 Preview 2. SSMS 19 is the recommended version of SSMS for SQL Server 2022.