If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results. This method won't work in SQL Server, but Microsoft's Trans ...

In SQL Server 2017, automatic plan correction was added, which allows for the database engine to automatically use the "last known good plan" for a query that has suddenly regressed in performance.

SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table while working in Access. Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us.

Let's start off with looking at the SQL Server services running on a given machine. Use the Get-Service cmdlet to find out about services on either your local or remote machine: get-service ...

SQL Advisor. Query SQL Server with PowerShell. ... Most DBAs are already familiar with SQLCMD, introduced with SQL Server 2005 to replace the old OSQL command-line query interface. ... I'll talk about ...