Microsoft

SQL Server 2022 pricing and licensing

Introducing a new cloud billing option for SQL Server customers, providing pay-as-you-go flexibility across on-premises and cloud environments. License by vCore [4]New Allows customers to elect to ...
InfoQ

DuckDB Quack: Client/Server Protocol over HTTP for Multi-User Analytics

DuckDB has recently announced Quack, a new remote protocol over HTTP that lets multiple DuckDB instances connect to and work ...
Microsoft

Visual Studio Licensing Overview

Visual Studio and Azure DevOps are available both as individual products and services and as part of a subscription. Visual Studio Community is available only as an individual product, and only to ...
IEEE

An Investigation on LLMs' Visual Understanding Ability Using SVG for Image-Text Bridging

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have made significant advancements in natural language understanding. However, through that enormous semantic representation that the LLM has learnt, is it ...

For May, Patch Tuesday means 139 updates — but no zero-days

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

A powerful multi-database server implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to provide AI assistants with structured access to databases.

The DB MCP Server provides a standardized way for AI models to interact with multiple databases simultaneously. Built on the FreePeak/cortex framework, it enables AI assistants to execute SQL queries, ...
GitHub

Modernize your code solution accelerator

Welcome to the Modernize your code solution accelerator, designed to help customers transition their SQL queries to new environments quickly and efficiently. This accelerator is particularly useful ...