So, to test it myself, I added a full-text index to a column containing street names (so therefore fairly short strings) in a semantic model containing data from my favourite public data source, the ...

Intel SGX TDX migration reaches a hard deadline: Intel confirmed Diamond Rapids, arriving mid-2027, will be the last Xeon server platform to include SGX enclaves. All future Intel CPUs will rely ...

This article explains how to enable, verify, and disable performance monitoring for a database in Azure SQL Database, and how to view and query the data that it collects. Performance monitoring ...

Database Hub in Microsoft Fabric gives database teams one place to detect, investigate, act on, and automate responses to issues and opportunities across their database estate. Database Hub uses your ...

SQL Server on Azure Local is generally available. Review disconnected deployment requirements, separate licensing, and recovery planning before adopting it. Microsoft has made SQL Server on Azure ...

Some of the world’s most critical databases run in places where cloud connectivity cannot be assumed. A remote industrial site, for example, may need production systems to continue operating when ...

When you're trying to improve battery life on your iPhone or use less data, one of the first settings you'll probably check is Background App Refresh. It's much easier to know what your active app is ...

Windows 11's Dynamic Refresh Rate saves energy by lowering your screen's refresh rate when you're not gaming. Here's how to enable it. Windows 11 supports the activation of a dynamic refresh rate (DRR ...

Microsoft will begin reporting Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, providing more clarity about its business that competes with Amazon Web Services. The company is trimming the number of ...

A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials. Starting ...

A now-patched vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB could have let an attacker escape the service's Gremlin query sandbox and obtain full read and write access to databases across customer tenants, ...

Power BI has become an indispensable tool for businesses looking to transform raw data into actionable insights. But here’s the thing: those insights are only as good as the data they’re built on. If ...