Abstract: We introduce Semantic Relational Types (SRT), an extension to the relational type system that enriches traditional SQL data types with semantic annotations. SRT provides LLMfriendly type ...

A team of AI researchers at Bloomberg have developed PExA, an agentic framework that achieved 70.2% execution accuracy, sharing one of the top positions on the Spider 2.0 (Snow) leaderboard, one of ...

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 ...

Microsoft has officially announced SQL Server Management Studio SSMS 22 Preview 5. And it comes with improvements and reliability updates for developers who use GitHub Copilot within SSMS. This update ...

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 ...

Abstract: SQL query optimization (QO) is a critical component of database management systems, essential for improving query execution times, enhancing resource utilization, and ensuring scalability in ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft.Build.Sql is leading the charge. This next-generation SDK brings flexible project structures, better source control integration, automated build-time ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...