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 ...

If you don’t have a backup of your MS SQL database, then follow the below ways to recover deleted data. Transaction log files record each change made to the ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't.

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. I ...

Symmetric-key cryptography, on the other hand, uses a single shared key to encrypt and decrypt data. The main advantage of symmetric-key cryptography is that it is much faster than public-key ...

AES, Blowfish, and many common encryption algorithms are symmetric, meaning the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt data.