Until recently, if you wanted your AI agent to check flight prices or look up a database, you had to write a custom tool. When Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it created a ...

An installable assembly for SQL Server that adds Deflate (the algorithm used by GZip) Compression functions for nvarchar values. Download the latest release from the Download page. Please note that ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Working with numbers stored as strings is a common task in Python programming. Whether you’re parsing user input, reading data from a file, or working with APIs, you’ll often need to transform numeric ...

Cloudy Tactics: In another effort to steer Windows customers toward Azure, Microsoft is offering a new tool that converts virtual machines between two formats. The goal is to help organizations stay ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a database management system that is mainly used store and retrieve requested data across a network. It’s purpose more closely aligns with software developers and not so much ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...

FastAPI-MCP is a zero-configuration tool that seamlessly exposes FastAPI endpoints as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. It allows you to mount an MCP server directly within your FastAPI app, making ...

Based on the expertise of Intelligent Converters specialists gained from a variety of migration projects, this whitepaper reveals best practices, key bottlenecks, and some tips and tricks for ...