If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

In an era where data is a strategic asset, organizations often falter not because they lack data—but because their ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers ...

In the same way, they may not be certain about how the SQL Server instance-wide configuration settings, tempdb configuration, user database settings, or the exact transactions running during the ...

Microsoft also plans to end support in SQL Server 2022 for Cloudera and Hortonworks external data sources. Organizations should switch to SQL Server 2022's "new object storage integration" instead.

Also read: At Ignite, Microsoft enhances its cloud database, warehouse and lake services While the previous release (SQL Server 2019) focused on core features like Azure Data Studio, Big Data ...