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Affected locations in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba will not turn their clocks back at 02:00 local time on November 1, 2026. They will remain at UTC−07:00, UTC−06:00, and UTC−05:00, respectively.  Microsoft’s interim guidance for British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba describes the new Windows time zones and temporary workarounds.  ...

You told us that applications using can take too long to establish the database connections they need. When many requests need connections at the same time, waiting for the connection pool to grow can delay application readiness and increase latency. This can happen even in common situations like querying several pieces of metadata during startup ...

Developers, database administrators, data professionals, architects and technology decision makers have several opportunities to connect, learn and gain hands-on experience this fall. 2027 Q4 SQL Events Get hands-on with SQL and AI The Friday workshops are led by the SQL product group! They provide a full day of practical learning before the...

Welcome to SQL First, welcome to SQL! You’re going to like this. Upgrading from PostgreSQL is real work, and depending on your old database, this process will vary widely in complexity. I am confident that you’re going to love the mindful and modern features of SQL. Take your time, make the most of the resources built to help you in Microsoft L...

Data API builder (DAB) 2.1.5 is now available as a stable release, and it is about meeting modern data where it lives: documents next to rows, embeddings next to both. This release brings native support for the SQL and data types to the REST and GraphQL endpoints, so the same entities that serve your CRUD traffic can now store and expose document...