This piece first appeared at Just Security. As Congress prepares to vote in April on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”), one of the main points of ...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of ...

dbForge 2025.3 adds AI Assistant to SQL Complete, supports SSMS 22, Visual Studio 2026, MySQL 9.5, MariaDB 12.2, and Oracle 26i, enhances SQL syntax and UI/UX. With dbForge AI Assistant in SQL ...

In Azure AI Search, the simple query syntax invokes the default query parser for full text search. The parser is fast and handles common scenarios, including full text search, filtered and faceted ...

Have you ever wished your Excel formulas could think like reusable building blocks instead of static, one-off instructions? Imagine creating a single formula that adapts dynamically to your data, ...

Have you ever stared at a tangled web of paired columns in your dataset—”Size 1/Value 1,” “Size 2/Value 2,” and so on, wondering how to make sense of it all? It’s a common frustration for anyone ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...