I have organized the major announcements from Databricks and Snowflake since 2014 into a single timeline and examined the ...

Learn how AlloyDB AI eliminates complex multi-step application code, combining vector and full-text search into a single, high-performance SQL call.

Tencent Cloud announced the official launch of Tencent Cloud DataBuddy, its third assistant-class product alongside Tencent CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy ? a fully managed, agent-native Data + AI workbench.

For SQLNCLI that ships as a component of SQL Server Database Engine (versions 2012 through 2019), see this Support Lifecycle exception. SQL Server Native Client is a stand-alone data access ...

Auditing for SQL databases in Fabric is a critical security and compliance feature that enables organizations to track and log database activities. Auditing supports compliance, threat detection, and ...

When you need to move an entire database or move the objects in a database, bacpac and dacpac files often come up because of all of the tooling options to interact with them. Bacpac and dacpac files ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2025, how does it fare? Ian Stirk takes and in depth look and finds it pretty good. This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance ...

A new chapter has begun in the Snowflake ecosystem for data engineers and developers. On July 2, 2025, Snowflake's 9.18 release introduced a long-awaited feature: support for OUT parameters in stored ...

Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

In the agentic era, the role of enterprise data is shifting from a passive resource to a dynamic System of Action. That’s why we announced the Agentic Data Cloud — a unified architecture that ...

This week, we are excited to kick off SQLCon 2026 alongside FabCon in Atlanta. Bringing these SQL and Fabric communities together creates a unique opportunity to learn, connect, and share what’s next ...

Earlier this month at BUILD London, we announced the general availability of Cortex Code CLI, designed to transform the way data practitioners use and build on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Today, we ...