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 ...

Microsoft Incident Response investigated an attack operated through legitimate and trusted administrative mechanisms to blend ...

As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward.

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday release broke a long zero-day streak, arriving without any vulnerabilities listed as exploited or publicly disclosed.

The MSI must be run in any command prompt (cmd.exe & pwsh.exe both work), as it does not yet have a UI (coming soon). The MSI will install OpenSSH to the ProgramFiles\OpenSSH folder. Installing SSH ...

Truly Asynchronous. Built from the ground-up using async/await for maximum concurrency. Compile-time checked queries (if you want). See SQLx is not an ORM. MSSQL was supported prior to version 0.7, ...