Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity.

Microsoft is deprecating all Linux-based SQL Server VM images from the Azure Marketplace for new deployments. This shift to a script-based provisioning model promises greater flexibility and control.

Write-Host "Backup in Progress" $QueryStatement = "SELECT * FROM settings where setting_name='backup_path'" $Query = Perform-Query $QueryStatement $Result = $Query $BackupDirectory = ...

Microsoft PM Carlos Robles previews his Live! 360 Orlando session on how recent updates to the MSSQL extension—like GitHub Copilot integration, Schema Designer, and local SQL containers—are ...

Microsoft updated the free MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code with public preview support for browsing Microsoft Fabric workspaces and provisioning SQL Database in Fabric from within VS Code, plus ...

Skyvia MCP Server makes customer data available to AI tools via the open Model Context Protocol (MCP), so AI assistants can securely analyze, summarize, and act on CRM, ERP, databases, and more in ...

The new agent building capabilities are expected to be made available in private preview by the end of the year.

Rural healthcare organizations and independent or community hospitals that can’t afford Microsoft Unified have affordable alternatives.

Microsoft says GitHub Copilot can address breaking changes in not only a company’s applications but also their dependencies. Those are the external software components on which a workload depends to ...

“Fundamentally, the issue that leads to Kerberoasting is bad passwords,” Tim Medin, the researcher who coined the term Kerberoasting, said in an interview. “Even at 10 characters, a random password ...