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.

Abstract: This paper presents a novel model we called HIT-SQL to enhance text-to-SQL query generation using large language models (LLMs) with progressive active learning. HITSQL is specifically ...

New AI capabilities help DBAs move from performance visibility to performance resolution—turning slow queries into actionable index recommendations in minutes HOUSTON, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Bungie has released a comprehensive feedback recap following Marathon’s Server Slam weekend, detailing player concerns and issues the developer is tracking based on player feedback. Bungie has been ...

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It's rare we get anything for free these days, especially in the realm of storage and memory. But an updated Windows Server driver has officially given Windows native NVMe SSD support, and some ...

Microsoft has released a native NVMe performance feature in Windows Server 2025 that targets one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern server deployments: storage overhead. If you run NVMe-based ...

Single-file T-SQL script that snapshots a SQL Server database's performance signals and schema into one Markdown report, designed to be read by humans and analysed by LLMs such as ChatGPT or Claude.

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

A server in Salt Lake City says the “No Tax on Tips” provision is going to help, but “it’s not going to be a huge impact.” ...