Microsoft Fights Back
Microsoft fights back against hackers after a recent vulnerability in a management framework.
2021-01-14
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Microsoft
2020-11-11
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2020-10-13
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Compatibility Level Confidence
The database compatibility level ought to provide some protection from database upgrade changes, but do you believe that?
2020-09-21
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The Evolution of Windows
Today Steve looks back at Windows, and how Windows 10 might be the last version. Perhaps this is the model we'll see with SQL Server in the future.
2020-09-01
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The Computing Revolution
Steve reflects on some of the ideas of how Microsoft imagines the future of computing.
2020-07-27
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2020-07-06
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The Build Book of News
Every year Microsoft has held the Build conference for developers. I've been lucky enough to go a few times, and I was hoping to get the chance to attend again. With the pandemic, the entire event went virtual, and was held across 48 continuous hours. I was slightly disappointed as a few sessions I wanted […]
2020-05-23
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Is 100% Security Possible?
A security breach at Microsoft is disconcerting, especially when they don't share details.
2020-03-05
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Azure Sphere
The Azure Sphere project is a great piece of research at Microsoft that might help us data professionals with security.
2019-11-25
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Blogs
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Daily Coping 26 Jan 2021
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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When backup job runs we are receiving the below error and database connection closes....
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Hi Guys, I have a report named Master and a report named Child, Child...
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