For the past several weeks I’ve been doing nothing but complaining about vendors so I thought I’d take a break and write something about SQL Server for a change. So to that end today I’m gonna talk ...

There used to be few good options for a DBA with a bunch of systems stuck on SQL Server 2008. But thanks to one easy trick, businesses on aging infrastructure can take advantage of Microsoft's modern ...

SQL JOINs make it easy to find and fix missing data Your email has been sent Many people are confused by various JOIN operations supported by SQL. Learn to master the SQL command line with this crash ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Upsolver, the company dedicated to making data in motion accessible to every data practitioner, today announced the general availability of SQLake. The new service ...

Defeat hackers by running the Microsoft Web Application Configuration Analyzer with the same security checks that Microsoft uses on its own servers Microsoft has just released version 2.0 of its Web ...

I have a database that I want an exact copy of (db schema and data) except I want to change the name of the database to something else, and I want a different user to be able to access it. Is there an ...

SQL remains the backbone of enterprise data access. Despite the rise of dashboards, semantic layers, and AI-driven analytics, ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...