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Each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts-our readers! The top three vote getters in ...

In this article, authors discuss Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard designed to connect AI agents with tools and data they need. They also talk about how MCP empowers agent development, ...

In SQL Server, the 'N' in N'...' represents 'National Character Set' and is used to identify Unicode strings. The core function of this syntax is to inform the database that the string should be ...

GitHub’s CodeQL is a robust query language originally developed by Semmle that allows you to look for vulnerabilities in the ...

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GitHub Copilot for Azure is now available in Public Preview inside Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.14 or later). The new ...