Microsoft delivered fixes for issues affecting everything from Windows to Office, .NET, and SQL Server, and several patches that should be deployed ASAP.

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data ...

SQL Server tools are used across industries to improve the performance, security, and automation of databases. Modern tools support cloud-hybrid systems and faster data analysis workflows. Choosing ...

Microsoft this week posted new test versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. Visual Studio and .NET came out in Beta 2 versions. Tightly coupled with those public ...

As a follow-up to Microsoft Build at the end of May, we thought it was a good time to highlight recent updates for client tools. In this post, we’ll recap the updates to SQL tools over the past few ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

Visual Studio & SSMS 22 extension, standalone app and command line tools, for managing all aspects of your SQL Server Compact/SQLite database files' data and schema ...

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 ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

As an engineer with over two decades of experience in SQL Server, I've encountered my fair share of inefficiencies and limitations within SSMS. Motivated by these challenges, I started developing the ...