Microsoft released long-awaited updates to its database and programming tools to developers on Thursday and revealed a plan to lure new database customers. The company said that its SQL Server 2005 ...

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database offerings ...

Microsoft on Friday announced that it will begin a broad testing program for its SQL Server 2000 database that will enable business reporting. The Reporting Services feature is a key addition to SQL ...

Microsoft has an unfortunate history of inventing amazing new technologies and then getting left in the dust. Microsoft had smartphones before Apple, and e-readers before Amazon, but never made a dent ...

Microsoft Corp. is raising its game for artificial intelligence developers with a host of updates to its Azure cloud computing platform. At its annual Ignite 2023 conference, the company explained ...

The long wait for SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 has ended for Microsoft developers. Products go to manufacturing. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Back in 2013, Microsoft suffered a rather critical security breach. The company's internal bug reporting database was compromised, giving those who hacked into it access to a list of unresolved bugs ...

A fix for the new Jet bug, however, was missing from Tuesday's patch parade. Secunia, which labeled the vulnerability as "highly critical," said that a parsing problem in the engine -- which provides ...

Excel offers no such constraint. If someone is determined to enter bad data, they can simply paste values over a validated ...