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This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs.

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SQL Server 2022: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database workhorse that powers both an internal line of business applications and ...

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