Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...

1. Change registry key SqlCluster in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.x\Setup\ from 1 to 0 2. Disable TCP/IP in Server Network Protocols and enabled Named Pipes from ...

As SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reach the end of support in 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to upgrade to a cloud database service. Follow this step-by-step guide to manage change effectively as you ...

SQL Server is a business critical application that requires high availability protection, regardless of where it is deployed. Even in the cloud, you still need to protect SQL Server from downtime if ...

I'm trying to copy a database from one server (SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition) to another (SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition) to make sure the second is suitable as a backend to some terrifying ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

Organizations running SQL Server 2005 will be cut off when it comes to official support next year, Microsoft announced this week. SQL Server 2005 will exit its "extended support" product lifecycle ...

Written by Sudarshan Roy, Senior Database Specialist Architect, AWS & Saleh Ghasemi, Senior Database Specialist Architect, AWS Data is one of the most valuable assets your company owns. Database ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Microsoft pulled its SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 on Thursday after numerous reports of installation errors. Microsoft said it plans to make SP1 for SQL Server 2014 available again sometime "in the ...