Microsoft delivered fixes for issues affecting everything from Windows to Office, .NET, and SQL Server, and several patches that should be deployed ASAP.

Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today introduced a new Model Context Protocol server designed to connect large language models and artificial intelligence agents securely to its Software ...

You add filters to trace templates, which contain the trace definitions, to limit the number of events gathered by a trace. Limiting the number of events gathered can reduce the performance effects of ...

When I joined the SQL Tools team as a PM back in October 2018, my top priority was to release SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18. I expected a fair amount of work but didn’t realize how ...

Monitoring performance has always been a big challenge for database administrators. Many databases do not have a convenient interface for performance monitoring and force database administrators to ...

Apple may have embraced the pro market on the Mac hardware side with the recent release of the iMac Pro and forthcoming Mac Pro, but the software side, well, that’s a slightly different story. A quiet ...

Replay is the ability to open a saved trace and replay it again. [!INCLUDE[ssSqlProfiler](../../includes/sssqlprofiler-md.md)] features a multithreaded playback ...

The highlights of the newest version of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 take security and visibility upgrades of earlier versions and move toward availability, simplicity, and consistency. With only a few ...