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Sydney Zoo’s IT team has quietly turned a zoo‑wide data tangle into a single analytics surface, adopting Microsoft Fabric to consolidate multiple siloed databases, ingest real‑time operational telemetry and build semantic models that drive business reporting, visitor analytics and future CRM...

Microsoft Digital’s Employee Productivity Engineering (EPE) team faced a deceptively simple-sounding question with outsized implications: should we build on Microsoft Dataverse — the low-code data platform native to the Power Platform — or rely on Microsoft SQL Server and its mature relational...

Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into...

As SQL Server 2016 approaches its end of support on July 14, 2026, organizations running mission-critical workloads on this version find themselves at a pivotal crossroads. The decade-long lifecycle has been marked by reliable performance, rich features, and high adoption, but the looming...

Druva’s recent announcement of expanded support for Microsoft Azure, detailed by SiliconANGLE, marks a significant evolution in cloud-native data protection. As workloads steadily migrate to the cloud and the risk landscape broadens, enterprise backup solutions must not only keep up but also...

When you’re trying to extend a disk on an Azure SQL VM that’s part of an Always On Availability Group—and the disk you want to expand is actually a Storage Spaces–based virtual disk—it’s not unusual to find that the “Extend Volume” option is grayed out in Disk Management. Although the individual...

Picture this: it's 2025, and SQL Server—the indispensable database tool that has powered applications for decades—is not only still thriving but soaring in ways that are innovating enterprise data management. Microsoft has unveiled bold updates across its SQL Server ecosystem, ranging from the...

In today’s rapidly evolving IT landscape, the ability to replicate data across cloud platforms is no longer a "nice-to-have" but a necessity. Whether it's for disaster recovery, performance optimization, or a move towards a multicloud strategy, these solutions ensure businesses remain agile...

Microsoft is ringing in the new year with a bang for developers who use Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to handle SQL Server operations. The newly updated MSSQL extension for VSCode is designed with a slew of enhancements that cement it as an invaluable tool for working with SQL Server, Azure SQL...

It’s no secret that in today’s digital age, data is gold. Companies of all sizes have been flocking to the cloud like bees to honey, enticed by the promise of scalability, flexibility, and—of course—cost-efficiency. But there’s a critical question everyone needs to answer: “Just how secure is...

Moving the backbone of your company's IT infrastructure to the cloud isn't just a box you tick on a checklist—it’s a strategic, game-changing decision. Microsoft SQL Server has long been a stalwart of on-premises database management, but with the rise of cloud computing, businesses are looking...

The Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server provides native connectivity from Windows to Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Link Removed

The Data Warehouse Migration Utility is designed to ease migrations from SQL Server and Azure SQL Database to Azure SQL Data Warehouse and help users identify incompatibilities before moving. Link Removed

Today, Scott welcomes Borko Novakovic back to Data Exposed and the Channel 9 studios. Borko, a Program Manager in the SQL Server team, is in Redmond all the way from his home in Belgrade, Serbia to introduce us to the new Temporal technology being introduced in SQL Server 2016. Temporal in SQL...

This week's episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Ron Matchoro, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the SQL Server team. Today, Ron introduces us to a new feature just released to Azure SQL Database called Dynamic Data Masking. Dynamic Data Masking is policy-based security feature that...

In this week's episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Joachim Hammer, Principle Program Manager at Microsoft on the SQL Server team. Today, Joachim introduces us to a new feature just released to Azure SQL Database called Row Level Security (RLS). RLS is a programmable security feature that can...