On the first day of Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure HorizonDB, a fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database rebuilt from the ground up for ...

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Microsoft beat on the top and bottom lines and on Azure cloud growth. The company said it had over 20 million paid seats for the Microsoft 365 Copilot artificial intelligence add-on for commercial ...

Bing Webmaster Tools added a new mapping feature to the AI Performance dashboard. You can now click a grounding query to see which pages are cited for it. Or click a page to see which grounding ...

The Citus coordinator partitions an incoming query into fragment queries, and sends them to the workers for parallel processing. The workers are extended PostgreSQL servers and they apply PostgreSQL's ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new generation of Azure virtual machines (VMs) built on AMD’s 5th Gen EPYC processors, designed for cloud, AI, and high-performance computing. The newly introduced Da/Ea/Fasv7 ...

The Maia 200 chip is starting to roll out to Microsoft’s data centers today. The Maia 200 chip is starting to roll out to Microsoft’s data centers today. is a senior correspondent and author of ...

The focus of this new AI accelerator is inference— the production deployment of AI models in applications. Its architecture combines high compute performance with a newly designed memory system and a ...

Azure SQL Query Store now captures read-only queries, expanding performance visibility beyond transactional workloads DBAs can analyze execution plans and runtime statistics for primary and read-only ...

Existing index tuners typically rely on the “what if” API provided by the query optimizer to estimate the execution cost of a query on top of an index configuration. Such cost estimates can be ...

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