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The sql server tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft SQL Server administration, security, and deployment topics drawn from recent community threads. Discussions include patching critical vulnerabilities such as CVE-2026-54116, CVE-2026-47295, CVE-2026-55002, and CVE-2026-54118, which affect versions from SQL Server 2016 through 2025. Other threads address the end of extended support for SQL Server 2016, with Extended Security Updates available until 2029, and hybrid deployment scenarios involving Red Hat OpenShift and AWS FSx for ONTAP storage. The tag also highlights database ranking disputes and best practices for separating data, logs, and TempDB files to optimize performance and recovery.
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    VergeOS 26.2 Adds Windows Failover Clustering Shared Disks and Faster VMware Migration

    VergeIO picked an interesting week to talk about the 300,000 VMware customers it says Broadcom is "leaving behind." The company's new CEO made that pitch to journalists at the 70th IT Press Tour in Palo Alto, and on the same day it shipped VergeOS 26.2. For Windows and SQL Server administrators...
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    FabCon & SQLCon 2026: Fabric IQ and SQL Server on Azure Local Reach General Availability

    Microsoft's wrap-up of FabCon and SQLCon Europe 2026 in Barcelona is a conference recap. The useful part is the list of products and their release status. Several items are generally available, several are previews, and some are still only promised. Here is how each one stands. The event in...
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    SQL Server on Azure VMs Reaches GA in Azure Bleu, France’s Sovereign Cloud

    SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available in Azure Bleu, Microsoft's France Sovereign Cloud. Microsoft's own wording is short. Most of what follows is context and a checklist for planning, and it avoids guessing at details Microsoft hasn't published. What Microsoft...
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    King V Principle 10: SQL Server 2016 Support Risks and Windows Server 2016 Audit Evidence

    South Africa's new King V governance code is being read by many boards as a reporting chore. Johan Lamberts, managing director of Ascent Technology, argues in ITWeb that it is more than that. He says Principle 10 makes directors accountable for the database estate now, not for a paragraph in a...
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    Azure Arc-Enabled SQL Server Now Available in Italy North: Setup and Regional Requirements

    Microsoft has added Italy North to the Azure regions where Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server is available. The Azure Updates entry is marked "Launched" and titled "Generally Available: Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server Available in Italy North." On Azure Updates, "Launched" means a fully released...
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    Azure Arc-Enabled SQL Server Is Now GA in Germany West Central: Requirements and Regional Caveats

    Microsoft has moved Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server to general availability in Germany West Central. If you run SQL Server outside Azure and need its Azure management resources registered in a German region, this is the region you were waiting for. The Azure Updates entry, titled "Generally...
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    SQL Server on Azure Local Disconnected Operations: GA Status, Requirements and Licensing

    Some databases can't count on a network connection: an oil platform, a classified enclave, a factory floor where the WAN link fails at the worst moment. For these sites Microsoft now has an Azure Updates entry marked Launched, titled "Generally Available: SQL Server on Azure Local Disconnected...
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    Azure Arc SQL Server Performance Dashboard Preview: Eligibility, Telemetry and Limits

    Microsoft's Azure Updates feed has a new entry dated September 29, 2026: "Public Preview: Performance monitoring for Azure Arc–enabled SQL Server." The label promises a lot, but the entry itself says very little. At the time of writing, the Azure Updates page for the item showed "0 Updates...
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    Microsoft Fabric Barcelona 2026: Copilot IQ, Power BI Apps, SQL and Preview vs GA

    Microsoft used this year's European data conference in Barcelona to announce a long list of changes. Fabric IQ now feeds business context into Copilot. Power BI Desktop can generate small apps from a prompt. Fabric gets a preview observability suite, and Database Hub has moved to preview. On the...
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    Microsoft Fabric IQ Grounds Copilot in Power BI: Availability, Permissions and Preview Features — Megathread

    Microsoft wants its AI tools to understand a company’s business, not merely read its files. At the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona, the company announced changes spanning Power BI-grounded Copilot answers, data sharing, application development, monitoring, SQL...
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    SqlClient 7.1.0 Fixes IPv6 Named Pipes Reboots on .NET 8/9

    Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.1.0 is generally available, with Microsoft’s September 21 announcement bringing.NET developers a SQL Server and Azure SQL provider update focused on connection reliability, correct data handling, and clearer client telemetry, alongside a deprecation warning that does...
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    PostgreSQL to SQL Server: Preserve Timestamp Meaning

    Microsoft’s September 21 PostgreSQL-to-SQL Server field notes explain how developers moving date-and-time data can choose between datetime2 and datetimeoffset, but the practical migration task is preserving what each value means: a local clock reading, an absolute instant, or a timestamp with...
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    CVE-2019-1068, AjaxPro RCEs Added to CISA KEV Catalog

    CISA added six vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 26, including two flaws that Windows and enterprise administrators should put at the front of their validation queue: CVE-2019-1068 in Microsoft SQL Server and CVE-2021-23758 in Ajax.NET Professional. The...
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    Amazon RDS SQL Server Replaces TRUSTWORTHY With Module Signing

    Amazon RDS for SQL Server administrators who have relied on TRUSTWORTHY to make stored procedures reach into another database now have an AWS-supported path that keeps the permission boundary at the procedure level: certificate-based module signing. AWS documented the approach on August 24...
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    SQL Server OpenShift AGs Need DH2i for Automatic Failover

    Microsoft, Red Hat, and DH2i will present a webinar on August 20 showing a SQL Server Availability Group stretched between a Windows Server VM and Red Hat OpenShift, but the important detail for IT teams is that the promised automatic failover depends on DH2i’s clustering layer—not on a native...
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    DB-Engines July 2026 Rankings Contradict NubiaPage Top 10

    NubiaPage’s “Top 10 Best Database Management Systems in the World 2026,” published August 10, does not match the DB-Engines ranking it says underpins the list. The official DB-Engines table available at publication was dated July 2026, not August, and it placed Microsoft SQL Server third and...
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    AWS FSx for ONTAP: Separate SQL Server Data, Logs and TempDB

    Amazon Web Services has published new deployment guidance for running mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, with a clear operational message for Windows database teams: separate SQL Server data, logs, and TempDB at the volume and LUN level if performance...
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    SQL Server 2016 Support Ends July 14—ESUs Run to 2029

    SQL Server 2016 is now out of extended support, closing its standard 10-year servicing window on July 14, 2026. For organizations still running the 13.x database engine, the immediate consequence is not an outage: existing instances and applications will continue to run. The change is that...
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    CVE-2026-54116: Patch SQL Server 2025 Memory Pointer Leak

    CVE-2026-54116 can expose internal memory pointers from Microsoft SQL Server 2025, giving an authenticated attacker addresses that may weaken memory-layout protections and help prepare a more damaging follow-on exploit. It does not, based on Microsoft’s published description, directly disclose...
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    CVE-2026-47295: Patch SQL Server 2016–2025 Privilege Escalation

    Microsoft’s July 14, 2026 security updates fix CVE-2026-47295 across supported releases from SQL Server 2016 SP3 through SQL Server 2025. Administrators should inventory every SQL Server instance, identify its exact build and servicing branch, then install the matching GDR or CU-based security...