In Azure SQL Database you can also set a HISTORY_RETENTION_PERIOD (and should be able to do it in SQL Server 2017) to control how far back in time your history will extend. Converting Existing Table ...

Now, go to the Database tab. Assuming that your SQL Server database is running on another server, this tab will be empty. Click the Change Database button. This will launch the Report Server ...

Most Common Wait Types in SQL Server and What They Mean. ASYNC_NETWORK_IO—The async_network_io wait types point to network-related issues. They are most-often caused by a client application not ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had.If you wanted the database to handle more data and run ...

In an earlier column, I showed how to create a temporal table in SQL Server 2016 or Azure SQL Database. Once you've defined a temporal table, SQL Server automatically keeps a history of all the ...

With the 2022 release, SQL Server will now also support database backup to/restore from any Amazon S3-compliant object storage system. Also read: Microsoft's PolyBase mashes up SQL Server and Hadoop ...