"AI beats rules" is meaningless if you can't explain decisions to humans. Transaction monitoring has been one of compliance's most persistent headaches for two decades. Rules fire on everything.

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 ...

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD) says that it and privately-owned Saltchuk Resources, Inc. have reached a definitive agreement for Saltchuk to acquire Great Lakes at an aggregate ...

After experiencing weekly CDC failures caused by transaction log issues and logs suddenly chewing up disk space, I found myself repeatedly investigating the same questions: Why is the log so large?

The Texas Rangers’ offseason transaction log features plenty of player movement, including a pair of seismic trades for the organization. The Texas Rangers have spent the past two seasons since ...

Thousands of Fortnite players reported issues logging into the game on Wednesday afternoon. Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, confirmed it was investigating major login outages.

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

The first release candidate (RC0) of SQL Server 2025 is now available. As we move toward general availability, our focus shifts to delivering enhanced stability, performance, and product improvements ...

Abstract: XLOG is the centralized log service of the SQL Azure Hyperscale (Hyperscale) distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) within Microsoft Azure. It is responsible for disseminating transaction ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Microsoft's continued focus on SQL Server 2025 highlights the lasting demand for on-premises and hybrid deployments that prioritize performance, control and flexibility for enterprise workloads. In ...