Welcome to the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server project! The Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server is a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity through the standard JDBC application ...

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 ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Thankfully, for such things, the document itself is relatively ...

Microsoft is officially retiring Office Online Server (OOS) by December 31, 2026, in a bid to prioritize cloud-based experiences powered by Microsoft 365 and Copilot. Office Online Server was the ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

Microsoft has announced the SQL Server 2025 preview, and this update is a big one for developers and IT teams. The Release Candidate 0 (RC0) introduces two major upgrades, including support for Ubuntu ...

If you work with data — or want to — Microsoft SQL Server is a skill worth having in your back pocket. The 2025 Total Microsoft SQL Server Bundle gives you five courses and 17 hours of practical, real ...

Empowering large language models (LLMs) to fluidly interact with dynamic, real-world environments is a new frontier for AI engineering. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification offers a ...

Oracle announced it evaluated MCP and has integrated it into its core developer tools, making the Oracle Database immediately available on any platform supporting MCP. This integration is made ...