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With over two decades of IT experience, Microsoft data platform MVP Thomas LaRock has seen nearly every SQL Server troubleshooting nightmare under the sun. In an upcoming session called "The Top 5 ...

An announcement last week by Microsoft's Customer Service and Support team indicated that Windows patches from Microsoft's July 10 "update Tuesday" release may have caused SQL Server failures after ...

Other than the slight risk of hitting the max number of databases (32k), what problems are there with having lots of databases in SQL? We've got an off-the-shelf application that adds a database for ...

Microsoft released SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 this week, but later pulled it after install errors surfaced. The service pack originally was released via the Microsoft Download Center on Wednesday, ...

I've been doing a little google foo and coming up a bit short. I need a whitepaper that details what the SQL max memory should be set at in relation to the total amount of RAM on the server. I thought ...

Microsoft released an emergency update for Windows Server 2022 at the end of last week. It corrects problems with SQL servers. The update with the KB number KB5041054 upgrades the server to build ...