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Using compression with SSMS is just as easy. Simply set the compression option on the Options page of the Back up Database dialog. You may be asking yourself: How effective is this compression? The ...

I need to copy a mass amount of tables in SQL Server to the same database (obviously renaming the tables). I need to include constraints, keys, indexes, etc, as well as data. (we need to copy an old ...

I have a need to compare multiple different versions of essentially the same SQL Server 2005+ databases and bring the table structures up to that which is in the newest version. It should compare the ...

The next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product, will launch on June 1, the company announced today. The release follows Microsoft’s usual round of public previews and release ...