Microsoft's July security update tackles more than 600 flaws, including multiple critical vulnerabilities and exploited zero-days. The update also begins mandatory Kerberos RC4 enforcement, ...

Microsoft has announced patches for 622 vulnerabilities, including exploited zero-days in Active Directory and SharePoint ...

Fix the “Login Pool Is Empty and Connection Creation Failed” error with 5 proven solutions for HikariCP, Spring Boot, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JDBC, and database connection pools.

To create a new instance of the CEDS Data Warehouse on your SQL Server, perform the following steps. Open the database creation script at /src/ddl/CEDS-Data-Warehouse-V14.1.0.0.sql using your ...

DuckDB has recently announced Quack, a new remote protocol over HTTP that lets multiple DuckDB instances connect to and work with the same database over a network. The protocol introduces ...

The wife approval factor is a big big plus, as it justifies investing in more servers and storage My wife is the biggest Plex user of our household, and the UI and ...

SQL Server DBA specializing in performance tuning and disaster recovery. Bad code rarely begins the cascade of most SQL Server performance problems. Typically, it begins with something that is much ...

Nearly every major product family needs immediate patching, from Windows to Office to Microsoft Edge, SQL Server, and even Microsoft Developer Tools. Windows admins are going to be busy this month, ...

Security by default – protecting the enterprise in SQL Server 2025Issued by Ascent TechnologyJohannesburg, 25 Mar 2026 Security by default – protecting the enterprise in SQL Server 2025. Explore how ...

Built-in intelligence – SQL Server 2025 optimising performance and insight. Key takeaways SQL Server 2025 shifts optimisation from a reactive activity to an intelligence-driven discipline. Built-in ...

The “A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server” message appears when your app or client cannot reach the ...