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The featured talks for Pure Virtual C++ 2026 are here! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community.

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Building automated pipelines with your SQL database projects enables you to build a rich CI/CD ecosystem to ensure that your application is being deployed ...

Overview In September 2026, NTLM support will be removed from libcurl, which is used by Git for HTTP(S) operations. As a result, Git operations over HTTPS ...

Learn how SQL MCP Server uses OBO authentication to preserve user identity, enforce Data API builder permissions, and audit AI agent activity in Azure SQL.

Unlocking the door from the inside.

We're halfway through 2026, and Microsoft SQL has not slowed down. Since SQLCon/FabCon in March (where we released a ton of things, and those updates can ...

Learn how Data API builder (DAB) 2.0 supports compound REST paths so you can organize endpoints by simple names, business areas, or schema ownership.

A practical tour of the Model Context Protocol tools for .NET build diagnostics - the full Binlog MCP toolset, how those tools run inside a GitHub Actions workflow, and what the evaluation data says about the efficiency gains.