Sometimes the smartest Excel move is closing Excel.

Excel's native Analyze Data tool provides instant visual data summaries without the added cost of a premium chatbot ...

A small social media poll from Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen split respondents over whether the IDE should add more database tooling, while the discussion quickly turned to existing SQL project ...

Microsoft delivered fixes for issues affecting everything from Windows to Office, .NET, and SQL Server, and several patches that should be deployed ASAP.

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix issues affecting Windows Server systems after installing the April 2026 security updates. As Microsoft confirmed last week, some admins may ...

Convert Excel (.xlsx) files into pipe-delimited TXT files, automatically mapping columns and order to the structure of an existing SQL Server table. This utility is designed for seamless integration ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

I'm a seasoned journalist who has been writing about consumer tech for the last fifteen years, and dabbling in it for longer still. Outside of writing, you'll find me nerding out over coffee, watching ...

Product Azure Azure SQL Database Microsoft Fabric SQL Server 2025 As we begin a new year in 2025, many of you are looking at new projects, new applications, trying to determine how to integrate AI ...

In announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately. A Copilot for the tool that helps users manage, ...