SQL Server Management Studio can help take the guesswork out of creating connection strings for PowerShell applications.

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient connection options control how the driver establishes, identifies, routes, retries, and pools a connection. Set them in a connection string or through matching ...

SQL Server 2025 adds long-requested developer capabilities including regular expressions, fuzzy string matching and major enhancements for working with JSON. Change Event Streaming lets applications ...

If you build apps on a cloud database, you know the friction. To develop and test locally, you either point your app at a shared cloud instance, with slow round trips, noisy neighbors, and ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2025’s newly introduced AI capabilities, designed to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, have been demonstrated to be a practical attack surface for data ...

Placing SQL MCP Server between your AI agent and your SQL database lets your agent interact with data through a controlled API surface instead of direct database access. Built on Data API builder (DAB ...

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to modify program executables, gain access to sensitive information, gain unauthorized access to the application, and execute ...

For the first time in 2025, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates did not bundle fixes for exploited security vulnerabilities, but the company acknowledged one of the addressed flaws had been publicly ...

A critical information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server, designated as CVE-2025-49719, allows unauthorized attackers to access sensitive data over network connections. This ...

At Microsoft Build 2025, we announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025. Built on a foundation of best-in-class security, performance, and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers customers to ...

Cloud SQL, Google Cloud's fully managed database service for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server workloads, offers strong availability SLAs, depending on which edition you choose: a 99.95% SLA, ...