Mission-critical database applications are often the most complex use case in the public cloud for a variety of reasons. They need to keep running 24×7 under all possible failure scenarios. As a ...

Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud. It's important to choose the right VM size and configure your storage properly to keep SQL Server workloads running smoothly. Microsoft ...

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view. We ...

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

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...