Hello everyone, and welcome to the inaugural edition of the Microsoft SQL Newsletter. You may recognize me from my work alongside Niko Carvalho Neugebauer on the Azure SQL Managed Instance Newsletter.

If you’re working with Azure DevOps and want to filter work items by tags, you might find that some common methods aren’t supported directly. Specifically, you can’t use wildcards like ‘*’ or partial ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance gains SQL Server 2025 update policy control. GA policy balances new engine features with operational stability governance. Enhanced update management supports enterprise ...

Azure SQL Query Store now captures read-only queries, expanding performance visibility beyond transactional workloads DBAs can analyze execution plans and runtime statistics for primary and read-only ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In helping students prepare for this exam, I have identified a number of commonly misunderstood ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced a new integration with Azure AI Foundry, delivering observability for agentic AI applications and large ...

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 ...

This PowerShell script example restores a database in SQL Database to a specific point in time. [!INCLUDE [quickstarts-free-trial-note](../../includes/quickstarts ...

Here’s an easy-to-follow guide to solve hierarchical data traversal issues in Spark using GraphFrames, along with some alternative methods to improve performance. If you’re working with hierarchical ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. This set of AZ-400 practice questions focuses on commonly misunderstood concepts that frequently ...

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