Microsoft has released fixes for 77 security vulnerabilities across its product portfolio in the March 2026 Patch Tuesday update, including a high-severity SQL Server flaw affecting multiple supported ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance gains SQL Server 2025 update policy control. GA policy balances new engine features with operational stability governance. Enhanced update management supports enterprise ...

Microsoft releases SQL Server 2025 CU2 with bug fixes and performance improvements. Update addresses backup, disaster recovery, replication, storage and resource governor issues. Regular cumulative ...

Transactional replication allows you to replicate data from one database to another hosted on either SQL Server or Azure SQL Managed Instance. SQL Managed Instance can be a publisher, distributor, or ...

This tutorial shows how to create an Always On availability group for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) within multiple subnets. The complete tutorial creates a Windows Server Failover ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a database management system that is mainly used store and retrieve requested data across a network. It’s purpose more closely aligns with software developers and not so much ...

Since most of us, especially on Neowin, use all our operating systems including Windows, Android, and their associated applications in English, we tend to forget that there are many regions which are ...

Microsoft has made managing encryption keys more secure for users running SQL Server 2022 CU18 and later on Azure Linux Virtual Machines with Managed Identity. Microsoft has announced that SQL Server ...

You may encounter issues when configuring the network settings of your server if there is a bug in your OS’s version. Even though there is no official confirmation ...