I'm scrambling to catch up on blogging, after two days of meetings in Redmond with lots of different Microsoft teams. (More from those meetings coming up soon here on the blog. Stay tuned....) ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

Scenarios are never the same, and neither should be your Pester scripts to test those scenarios. There are a couple of ways to account for these different scenarios. You could create a separate test ...

Microsoft made available for download on September 20 a Customer Technology Preview (CTP) test build of a first update to its SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its database. Microsoft released to ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. AI ubiquity is driving every vendor worth its salt to detail new functions in its platform. Where we ...

IKM assessments are what they sound like. Assessments of employee knowledge and skills used prior to hiring, during training, and at the end of the job. There are 30 – 50 multiple-choice questions, ...

A comparison of SQL Server's throughput performance on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives the edge to Microsoft's cloud. "Azure emerged as the clear leader across both Windows and ...