Q&A SQL Server Design: No Code Necessary Data pro Thomas LaRock dives into the intricacies of SQL Server design, emphasizing the power of smart datatype decisions. By Gladys Rama, Chris Paoli 09 ...

This is when you need to focus on automation tools like Windows PowerShell. To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages.

SQL Server’s data resiliency story gets a boost thanks to the new “link feature” in Azure SQL Managed Instance. According to Kumar’s post, the link feature includes a built-in Distributed Availability ...

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 ...

Azure will default to the Standard pricing tier, but if you want to consider adding a higher-performance server for your SQL database, click the arrow to reveal Figure D.

SQL Server's Stretch Database feature became publicly available in May 2015 with SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.0. With CTP 2.0, customers could stretch data to Microsoft's database as a service, Azure SQL ...

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...