KIOXIA Achieves 4.8 Billion High-Dimensional Vector Search Database on a Single Server, with 7.8x Index Build Time Acceleration via GPUs

Kioxia America, Inc. today announced the successful demonstration of high-dimensional vector search scaling to 4.8 billion vectors on a single server using its open-source KIOXIA AiSAQ(TM) approximate ...
Redmond Magazine

Restoring a Database to an Older Version of SQL Server

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...
The New York Times

He Built a Server to Protect Indigenous Health Data

Joseph Yracheta was in charge of a repository that compiled and protected tribal health data. Then its funding was cut. Credit...Tara Weston for The New York Times Supported by Lost Science is an ...
InfoWorld

Google BigQuery gets managed AI functions to simplify unstructured data analysis

The new managed functions will let enterprises apply LLM reasoning to structured and unstructured data directly in SQL, eliminating prompt tuning and external tools. Google has boosted its BigQuery ...
HotHardware

AMD Data Center Server Market Share Hits New High, Desktop Chips Away At Intel Too

The once heavily lopsided rivalry between AMD and Intel in pursuit of market share and the revenue that comes with it has become a much more tightly contested battle. Case in point, AMD sent us a ...
SiliconANGLE

Coralogix launches MCP Server to give AI agents direct access to observability data

Observability platform company Coralogix Ltd. today unveiled Coralogix MCP Server, a Model Context Protocol offering that allows third-party artificial intelligence agents to connect directly to ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

How to Recover Deleted Data from SQL Server without Backup

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 ...
elmens

SQL Server Change Data Capture Explained – All That You Need To Know

In this post, we will go step by step into several aspects of Change Data Capture, a feature that is available on the Azure SQL Managed Instance and Microsoft SQL Server. The focus will be on the ...
Scientific American

Data Centers Will Use Twice as Much Energy by 2030—Driven by AI

Data centers accounted for about 1.5 percent of global electricity consumption in 2024, an amount expected to double by 2030 because of AI use The electricity consumption of data centres is projected ...
Nature

Data centres will use twice as much energy by 2030 — driven by AI

The electricity consumption of data centres is projected to more than double by 2030, according to a report from the International Energy Agency published today. The chief culprit? Artificial ...
Redmond Magazine

Why SQL Server Is Still Worth It

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...