Development hiring managers and potential interviewees may find these open-ended SQL Server proficiency interview Q&As useful.

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Here's a quick tip.

Here is a list of common wait types and techniques that every DBA (or wannabe DBA) should know. While there are many more wait types than listed here, understanding these will give you a leg up when ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose is "a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance," Snodgrass explained ...

How to Attach an SQL Database to a Web Page. Your Web page can display up-to-date information dynamically -- all the time. And you never have to edit the page again. Attach your SQL database to ...

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 ...

There's a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

If this option is blank, double-check to make sure you have installed the Reporting Service on your SCOM server, not on your SQL Server. Figure 8: Choose your Reporting Service instance.

Users also get the Query Store hints that database developers can already use to tell in Azure SQL DB and Managed SQL Instances to help speed up queries without rewriting them.

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how.