The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is speeding up scrutiny of Microsoft (MSFT) as part of an ongoing investigation to check if the company illegally monopolizes parts of the enterprise software market ...

The queries about tying or bundling software offerings into other products like Windows and Office echo the Justice Department investigation into Microsoft in the late 1990s. That landmark case ...

Microsoft said its new Maia 200 artificial intelligence chip offers 30% higher performance than alternatives for the same price. The company has started to make them available in U.S. data centers. An ...

Abstract: This paper addresses query scheduling for goal-oriented semantic communication in pull-based status update systems. We consider a system where multiple sensing agents (SAs) observe a source ...

Abstract: Efficient SQL Query Optimization (QO) is a fundamental aspect of database management systems, aimed at enhancing query performance and reducing resource consumption typically involves ...

Columnstore indexes give great performance to queries that scan large sets of rows (millions of rows typically), and also provides huge savings in storage space. Typical compression rates can be 90%.

SQL Server 2025 reaches enterprise readiness with GA support on RHEL 10 and Ubuntu 24.04. Cumulative Update 1 improves SQL Server 2025 reliability, performance and security based on early feedback.

In addition to delivering quality releases and consistent functionality across these tools and experiences that enable you to efficiently manage and develop with Microsoft SQL Server, we are aiming ...

rootCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&args.UseAad, "use-aad", "G", false, localizer.Sprintf("Tells sqlcmd to use ActiveDirectory authentication. If no user name is provided, authentication method ...

The Google parent company is on track to finish with a market capitalization ahead of Microsoft's for the first time since 2018 Microsoft has made moves in AI, but one analyst worries that it's ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...