A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

By Joey D'Antoni 05/19/2025 Today, at Microsoft Build, Microsoft announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025 -- the latest release of their premier database product.

In conclusion, the data masking market is experiencing strong growth. Driven by increasing demand for data privacy and regulatory compliance solutions. While U.S. tariffs on semiconductor components ...

The goal is to ensure that data masking of a production database directly protects the database users outside of the production environment. Masking in SQL Server works by masking sensitive data to ...

Choosing the right data masking tools can be overwhelming with many options available in the market. Gartner Peer Insights lists over 20 vendors in the data masking category alone, and making sense of ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

A threat group named 'ResumeLooters' has stolen the personal data of over two million job seekers after compromising 65 legitimate job listing and retail sites using SQL injection and cross-site ...

The PowerShell script orchestrates this process, making it an invaluable tool for anyone who needs to access and export data frequently, regardless of their SQL expertise.

Given the diversity of masking features proposed by commercial and open-source database servers, this study proposes a framework for assessing the performance penalty of SQL queries when using ...