It is Patch Tuesday again. Microsoft shipped around 200 fixes today and three publicly disclosed zero-days, and not one of them is in...

A client asked me last week, plainly: 'Why are we still paying for SQL Server when Postgres is free?' It is a fair question, ...

Over the past few months, attackers have been talking Meta's new AI support bot into handing over Instagram accounts they didn...

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I live in Cozumel, MX part-time. So when one person walked off with about 150GB of Mexican government data this winter — tax records,...

Sometimes SQL can be cursed. It runs fine in dev and makes it through testing without issue. Then it gets to production, the table gr...

Microsoft's May 2026 cumulative update for SQL Server 2025 (CU4, KB5089899) did two things on the same day. It closed a remote c...

Back in September I wrote about Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025. Two components: Transaction ID (TID) locking and Lock After Qu...

SQL Server 2016 goes out of support on July 14, 2026. You know that already. What you may not know is how many seemingly successful u...

For roughly a decade, the way you stored a JSON document in SQL Server was to not store a JSON document at all. You stored a string. ...