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 ...

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...

Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

As more organizations configure MCP servers to support agent-to-agent communication, upfront strategy, nonfunctional requirements, and security non-negotiables will guide safer deployments. One of the ...

Abstract: ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines are an essential part of real-time data warehousing because they help businesses process and analyze large volumes of data quickly. However, building ...

Prototyping is my favorite part of programming. I like building new stuff and getting things working. It’s no surprise, then, that I am a big fan of MongoDB and NoSQL in general. Don’t get me wrong: I ...

The raw CIA World Factbook changed format at least 10 times between 1990 and 2025. Every script in etl/ exists because a previous version of the parser broke on a new year's data. The pipeline handles ...

This project implements an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline in Python using DuckDB to process and analyze log records (in JSON format). The system extracts the data, calculates usage and ...

Azure DevOps Server is now generally available, marking its transition to a production-ready on-premises offering for teams that need to self-host their DevOps platform. The GA release packages ...

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 ...