In Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2, WSUS is included with the Windows Server operating system. To install WSUS, open the Server Manager and select the Add Roles and Features command from the ...

For those legacy SQL Server 2008/R2 applications that remain critical, some form of high availability or disaster recovery protection will be required to preserve business continuity.

SQL Server 2012 also has master data services, which is used to categorize objects, such as "products" and "customers." It's designed for data that doesn't change too often.

Procedure to move Microsoft SQL Server database to a new location, painlessly, if you’re running low on disk space, added a new drive array, or just curious.

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

To find the database name you can pipe the output of Get-AzureSqlDatabasServer directly to Get-AzureSqlDatabase. You can see here that I'll be using a database name of myazuredatabase. [Click on image ...

That was all that was required to set up View Composer to use my database. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 9. Entering database information. It's not terribly difficult to connect your ...