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One of the more essential SQL Server tools is its trace utility. With it you can view the activity occurring against a SQL Server for diagnostic, informational, and other purposes. Because it lets you ...

Ok. I have some tables that store dollar amounts, among other data. I had the fields set to be a data type of money, and was planning on the values including zero. When selecting the data, I was ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

TransForce is a dedicated, real-time imaging server appliance that takes a single high-resolution image and repurposes it on the fly for each request, whether it be for a 75-by-75-pixel GIF thumbnail ...