There's a problem with schemas in SQL2K5 that I encountered again this week, and I put my head to it and developed a very elegant solution that I thought I'd share with everyone. Problem: When you ...

Despite the plentiful information in Books Online and on the official “SQL Server 2000 Security” document Microsoft offers online, setting up a truly secure SQL Server remains a difficult task. In ...

Queries work well if the databases are designed correctly. Here's what you need to know to build the foundations for your SQL Server databases. Most IT professionals and developers understand the ...

These are the tools I depend on, both when establishing a new SQL Server or encountering one in the wild. Any significant application needs to store data and, although the cloud is becoming more ...

Microsoft has made SQL Server 2025 generally available. The latest version of the database focuses on built-in AI ...

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The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

It’s time for the next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product. The company today announced the first public preview of SQL Server 2019 and while yet another update to a ...