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In SQL Server 2000, we had a nifty little utility called rebuildm.exe which would rebuild the master database in emergency situations. This utility was removed in SQL Server 2005 and has not been ...

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 ...

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.

Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space.

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

In the first of this two-part series, Microsoft's lead SQL architect explains how the company collects -- and secures -- telemetry data from Azure SQL Database customers to improve its engineering ...

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system ...

This article provides some practical guidance for system and database administrators tasked with protecting mission-critical SQL Server running in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), beginning ...