Modern business intelligence demands speed, and utilizing AI tools for Excel is the ultimate way to hyper-charge your data workflows this year.

New partnership pairs Percona migration expertise with HexaCluster tooling to move legacy and proprietary databases to open source more efficiently and deliver reduced licensing and support costs.

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As Microsoft phases out older Exchange Server versions, IT leaders are facing new decisions about how to stay compliant and cost-efficient. Understanding the current licensing landscape for Windows ...

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

A team of AI researchers at Bloomberg have developed PExA, an agentic framework that achieved 70.2% execution accuracy, sharing one of the top positions on the Spider 2.0 (Snow) leaderboard, one of ...

Abstract: Recent progress in Large Language Models has pushed Text-to-SQL systems closer to enabling natural language queries over complex relational databases. Unfortunately, the models sometimes ...

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...

Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It’s had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

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