Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Oracle announced a suite of agentic AI capabilities integrated directly into Oracle AI Database, enabling AI agents to securely access enterprise data where it already exists, rather than requiring ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

What if you could break free from subscription fees, vendor lock-in, and row limits while still managing your data with the ease of a spreadsheet? Better Stack walks through how an open source ...

Microsoft Azure operates two UK regions—UK South (located in London) and UK West (located in Cardiff and Durham)—providing UK enterprises with data residency options that align with ICO guidance and ...

Oracle Corp. today announced the general availability of Oracle AI Database 26ai and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse, both aimed at supporting artificial intelligence training and inference across ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. How does a venerable American brand known for creating the ...

Document databases are an increasingly important type of technology in the gen AI era. A document database is a type of NoSQL database that doesn't rely on rows and columns like a traditional ...

While Dapper provides excellent support for performing CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations efficiently, it does not have built-in support for bulk operations (i.e., bulk insert, bulk update ...