Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system that can support a wide range of applications, but the data must be readily available to those applications whenever they need it. Any ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. With these deadlines, agencies using these products should already have made progress on their ...

Today's organizations often manage SQL Server databases across various platforms, including physical, virtual, cloud, on-premises, hybrid cloud, and cloud-to-cloud environments. Managing individual ...

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment. My toolbox typically includes the tools that ...

Read and learn about the most common SQL Server services running under your OS (operating system). Tibor writes about five SQL Server database types that each perform a specific role. He also provides ...

UPDATE: The story that originally got my attention has been updated in all of the places I could still find it yesterday, so I’m pulling my references to the story and just focusing on the positive ...

Windows Authentication Mode is the default and recommended authentication mode. It tactfully leverages Active Directory user accounts or groups when granting access to SQL Server. In this mode, ...

Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with “New in ...