When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

I'm trying to figure out how much of an application I'm working on can be run from inside the SQL Server database, as opposed to the running in an executable that accesses the database. I'm new to the ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

Polybase, Query Store, dynamic data masking, row-level security, and temporal data JSON support -- just some of the new features that veteran SQL Server Live! presenter Leonard Lobel covers in this ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Everyone wants faster database queries, and both SQL developers and DBAs can turn to many time-tested methods to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, no single method is foolproof or ironclad. But even ...

Querying relational databases requires SQL, which is the only language designed to communicate with them. As a matter of fact, how SQL is used distinguishes business intelligence tools from one ...

A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing. Consultant, author and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry travels the world helping ...

You can give your users rights to check if reports have run or jobs are complete without granting full admin rights. Here’s how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server. We may earn ...