Database reliability extends beyond the ACID tests that most software professionals know. Database testing is divided into functional testing, ACID validation and performance testing. Functional tests ...

Microsoft engineer Bob Ward introduces sqlsimtools, an open-source SQL Server workload simulation and performance testing suite. Sqlsimtools supports Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric, concurrent workload ...

Applications come and go, but no one throws away a database. Databases are generally migrated, massaged and secured, but IT organizations rarely completely abandon them. Accordingly, testing a ...

You can create and schedule elastic jobs that periodically run against one or many Azure SQL databases. The jobs run Transact-SQL (T-SQL) queries and perform maintenance tasks. You can define target ...

Microsoft explains how Hyperscale separates compute, logging and storage while retaining a single primary for writes and SQL Server transaction semantics.

To effectively troubleshoot connectivity issues, gather the following information: The text of the error message and the error codes. Check whether the error is ...

Azure Data Factory lab: incremental SQL Server to ADLS Gen2 loading with a batch watermark, Parquet files, and failure recovery. - rusinda36/adf-sqlserver-adls-watermark ...

NVIDIA has open-sourced Auto Ontology, a framework designed to make AI agents more reliable when querying enterprise databases using natural-language instructions. The system creates a semantic layer ...

Upgrade Cloud SQL for MySQL with sub-second switchover on Enterprise Plus, real-data read validation, and automatic endpoint ...