Microsoft Defender bug mislabels SQL Server versions as unsupported software Fix rolling out to reverse code change behind inaccurate end-of-life tagging Recent Defender issues highlight ongoing ...

Microsoft is investigating and deploying a fix for a Defender for Endpoint issue that mistakenly identifies SQL Server 2017 and 2019 as end-of-life software. The false alerts appeared across ...

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 ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

when used with an old SQL server version (or, in my case, a database with a compatibility level lower than 140). This happens because the STRING_AGG SQL function, which is used in the implementation ...

Today is Microsoft's July 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 137 flaws, including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server. This Patch Tuesday also ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

Anyone who thinks that Intel is easy to kill need look no further than the historical trends of the Mercury Research market share statistics that we see each quarter. Data for the third quarter of ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...