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 ...

Use custom-built .NET 4.0 classes to connect an application to a SQL Server 2012 database.

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Disaster-proofing SQL Server involves more than bringing another instance of SQL Server online within a specified RTO. You need to ensure that the second instance of SQL Server can interact with the ...

SQL Server 2022 (and Azure SQL Database) quietly added an extended event to detect anti-patterns that the AI tool here is building upon.

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s ...