During a Veeam Backup upgrade/update the embedded database is not updated (if you are using the embedded database deployment). In v13 this happen in the Windows edition, the Linux appliance should ...

Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

Evaluate the effectiveness of Microsoft’s Python Risk Identification Toolkit (PyRIT) for agentic AI red teaming. Address evolving autonomous AI system threats.

UPDATE (June 5 th, 2025): Since publishing this blogpost, we have updated our tracking to better reflect the full range and complexity of the malicious activities carried out by the OilRig APT group.

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced adding WITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup ...

Exports the contents of a table, view, or query of a SQL Server database to an RFC 4180-compliant CSV file. This function supports the export of huge result sets by writing the contents of the CSV ...

This article discusses the “DROP IF EXISTS” statement available in SQL Server 2016 and later versions. “IF EXITS” is the latest optional clause added in the existing DROP statement in SQL Server 2016 ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...