Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...

More than 18,000 people work for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, according to a Charlotte Observer analysis of the district’s payroll. Each year, the Observer updates its public pay database with the ...

I had an interesting conversation with my son Tristan the other day. Because he’s so engrossed in his PhD research in machine learning at Simon Fraser University, I often try to steer our discussions ...

Japanese regulators are investigating Microsoft Corp.’s local unit over possible anti-competitive practices involving the Azure cloud platform. Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is probing whether the ...

Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that police took to unravel a decades-old series of murders in California and ...

If you have ever searched for a home online, you know the routine. Set a price range. Click a few filters. Run the search. Start over. Again and again. Now imagine skipping all of that and simply ...

• DNA analysis: DNA on gloves found 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home does not have any matches in the national database known as CODIS, and doesn’t match DNA found at Guthrie’s home, either, ...

Alibaba Tongyi Lab research team released ‘Zvec’, an open source, in-process vector database that targets edge and on-device retrieval workloads. It is positioned as ‘the SQLite of vector databases’ ...

Endee.io launches Endee, an open source vector database delivering fast, accurate, and cost-efficient AI and semantic search at scale. Endee rethinks vector DBs for high recall, low latency, and low ...

Database technology startup ClickHouse Inc. has raised $400 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15 billion — more than double its valuation less than a year ago. The large deal ...