The third Minecraft game drop of 2025 is almost ready for its official release. Mojang has already introduced all the new in-game features they had planned for the copper expansion. With all the new ...

At Microsoft, we’re seeing firsthand how data is powering incredible innovation and accelerating more than just a platform shift, it is changing the way we do everything. AI and generative AI are not ...

REF CURSOR Parameters in an OracleDataReader This example executes a PL/SQL stored procedure that returns a REF CURSOR parameter, and reads the value as an ...

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 ...

A common task that all database and system administrators face is patching systems. Patching your systems is very important -- first and foremost, security fixes are included in patches. Patches also ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

[!INCLUDE[SQL Server Azure SQL Database Synapse Analytics PDW](../../includes/applies-to-version/sql-asdb-asdbmi-asa-pdw.md)] To use a scrollable cursor, an ODBC ...