There's a problem with schemas in SQL2K5 that I encountered again this week, and I put my head to it and developed a very elegant solution that I thought I'd share with everyone. Problem: When you ...

tl;dr - see last paragraph. trying to design a generic file attachment table(s) for some business objects we keep in sql 2008 r2. files will be stored on disk and i'm not really interested in ...

SQL Server's DTS (Data Transformation Services) was a very useful tool in copying or moving data from one server to another, as well as transforming a good bit of it on the way to a different ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

From that point forward, transaction logs are periodically sent to the other server where they are automatically restored in the stand-by database. This keeps a hot spare of the server available.

Database schema management startup Ariga Technologies Ltd. said today it has closed on an $18 million early-stage funding round led by Tiger Global, TLV Partners and with participation from some ...

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment ...