Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections Today is the day Azure Storage stops supporting versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS 1.2 is the new ...

Microsoft is moving another core database management component into the cloud, continuing its broader shift away from traditional on-premises infrastructure. According to Neowin, the company has ...

Abstract: Generating accurate SQL from users’ natural language questions (text-to-SQL) remains a long-standing challenge due to the complexities involved in user question understanding, database ...

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A massive 4TB SQL Server backup file belonging to global accounting giant Ernst & Young (EY) was discovered publicly accessible on Microsoft Azure. The exposure, uncovered by cybersecurity firm Neo ...

Update #2 [Wed 29th Oct 2025, 9pm]: We're starting to see reports that the Xbox service is slowly returning to normal, and we can confirm that our full game libraries and the Microsoft Store are both ...

The recent “HITS in the cloud” webinar, hosted by Altron Digital Business and Microsoft South Africa, had a single message: SQL Server remains at the centre of enterprise operations. SQL is ubiquitous ...

Document databases are an increasingly important type of technology in the gen AI era. A document database is a type of NoSQL database that doesn't rely on rows and columns like a traditional ...

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...

Microsoft has launched Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server on Windows in the US Government, Virginia region. The Redmond giant called this a "major first step". Microsoft has recently announced that Azure ...