As today's database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

Inside the Session What: Next-gen SQL Projects with Microsoft.Build.Sql When: Aug. 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Who: Drew Skwiers-Koballa, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Why: Learn how to develop ...

1] Download SQL Server Management Studio First of all, we need to download the SQL Server Management Studio for your computer. So head to learn.microsoft.com.

Hackers are targeting Azure virtual machines (VM) using flawed Microsoft SQL servers as a stepping stone, security researchers have revealed. Microsoft’s experts recently reported observing the ...

Tips You should restart SQL Server Agent before launching the instance of SQL Server in single-user mode. Click "View," then "Object Explorer." Right-click "SQL Server Agent" and then click "Stop." ...

SQL guru Brent Ozar observed in a blog post: "We were all pretty surprised that Agent would break when it wasn't even supposedly changed in this CU", along with a picture of himself holding the retail ...

Permissions - SQL Power Doc makes connections to standalone SQL Server instances using either Windows Authentication or with a SQL Server username and password. Whichever way you connect, the login ...

SQL Operations Studio was announced for Public Preview on November 15th at Connect (), and this June release is the eighth major update since the announcement. If you missed it, the June release ...

There is no obvious way to script out in T-SQL an alter statement to apply changes to a SQL Agent account. This module makes use of SMO to apply changes, as it is far more powerful and flexible.