Redmond Magazine

Why Microsoft Is Still Betting Big on SQL Server in a Cloud-First World

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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Next-gen SQL Projects with Microsoft.Build.Sql

SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft.Build.Sql is leading the charge. This next-generation SDK brings flexible project structures, better source control integration, automated build-time ...
marktechpost

An Implementation Guide to Building a DuckDB-Python Analytics Pipeline with SQL, DataFrames, Parquet, UDFs, and Performance Profiling

In this tutorial, we build a comprehensive, hands-on understanding of DuckDB-Python by working through its features directly in code on Colab. We start with the fundamentals of connection management ...
Redmond Magazine

Why SQL Server Is Still Worth It

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...
PC Tech Magazine

Top 7 Courses for Professionals Moving into Data Analyst and BI Roles with Python, SQL, Power BI, and Tableau in 2026

Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain trends, and present findings clearly across business, finance, product, and ...
Forbes

Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Microsoft Security Response Center has confirmed that a SQL Server elevation of ...
GitHub

Executing stored procedures using TVP hard crashes python GC in python 3.11

Executing stored procedures using TVP hard crashes python GC in python 3.11. We think the issue has something to do with freeing memory inside cursor.execute(sql, *parameters). Which then gets double ...
GitHub

Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault for MACOS 15.6.1 for a correct python code fragment

I've run Python 3.10.18 with SQL Alchemy 1.4.39 to create a connection to MS SQL Server DB on macOS 15.6.1 and I get the error: Extension modules: charset_normalizer.md, google._upb._message, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Elevate SQL Development with VS Code

As SQL development increasingly becomes part of full-stack workflows, developers are looking for ways to simplify their tooling without compromising capability. While SQL Server Management Studio ...
cpajournal

Automating Data Analysis with Python Dashboards

In today’s data-rich environment, business are always looking for a way to capitalize on available data for new insights and increased efficiencies. Given the escalating volumes of data and the ...
University of Vermont

A brief introduction to databases with SQLite

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...