You may not have followed all my posts this summer about what we are doing with Microsoft SQL Server technology and the BI stack like Power BI and Azure Data Fabric. So, I thought I’d write a little catch-up blog post, to help you to find all LinkedIn Posts! First, a bit of humour with this image of SQL Server…
Should you be a Microsoft 365 subscriber who already owns a Microsoft Copilot licence, you may wish to consider connecting your M-Files Vault to benefit from the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot. M-Files offers a connector that can meet these needs. In this blog, we will examine the functionality it will provide and the steps required to enable it. Requirements In…
The SERVERPROPERTY() function is so nice to use to have information about the instance and server very quickly. Sometimes it’s good to come back to basis… How to begin? Read the documentation of course here but you will see a lot of informations… After reading the documentation, how to have the first useful information? The first information will be about…
Following the announcement of the partnership between M-Files and Microsoft, they have confirmed the availability of native Microsoft Co-Authoring within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. What means native and what is the differentiator to other ECM’s In this context, “native” means that documents stored in M-Files can be edited using the native capabilities of Microsoft 365, such as Co-Authoring. It is…
On the 1st of July 2025 M-Files and Microsoft announced their strategic partnership with the headline “M-Files and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership Revolutionising Document Management”I was wondering myself what does this will mean for us and a M-Files Partner and for our customers. What are the new features and benefits. In this blog article I will share the information and…
After the new connectivity and drivers landing page for SQL Server with .Net, Java, Python, C++, Go and PHP languages, you have a new landing page for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ssms You will see 6 parts in the main panel: If you have a look on the left menu, you will find more like Copilot in SQL…
After my blogs about “SQL Server 2025: Local SQL Server Container without Docker Command” and “SQL Server 2025: Local SQL Server Container – Schema compare preview”, I continue to play & test it. One new feature in preview is the “Schema Design compare” in this last MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code: Let’s start and see on a database (db2…
After my blog about “SQL Server 2025: Local SQL Server Container without Docker Command”, I continue to play & test it. One new feature in preview is the “schema compare” in this last extension for Visual Code: I like new feature and now let’s go for a test! 😉 I create 2 identically databases db1 & db2 with 2 tables…
You will find a new connectivity and drivers landing page for SQL Server with .Net, Java, Python, C++, Go and PHP languages: SQL Connectivity and Drivers – SQL Server | Microsoft Learn As you can see, you can download, have a quick start and some code samples… Let’s test on Python! When I click on “Download”, I have the page…
The last version of” MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code” has in Preview “the Local SqlServer Containers” based on SQL Server 2025 with the following keys: See all Preview Features here First Step: Download and install Visual Studio Code here Second Step: Download and install MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code here You can also directly from Visual Code, download…
Like every time with a new version of SQL Server, it’s good to see what the new configurations possibilities are for us to manage the instance. To do this, I will compare SQL 2022 and SQL 2025 using the system view sys.configurations. I begin with a count(*) to see how many differences I have: 95 configurations for SQL 2022 and…
Microsoft has announced the end of the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) service. In other words, Microsoft will no longer provide new versions of SSRS. Currently, the latest available version is the 2022 version (https://www.microsoft.com/fr-FR/download/details.aspx?id=104502). However, it is important to note that this service will be supported until January 11, 2033. Moreover, it will still be possible to use SSRS…
