Your database may get damaged due to several reasons. A backup will help you to restore the database lost in case of disasters and problems, like hardware failure, virus attack, or others. How To ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

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.

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Joey on SQL Server How To Use Query Store Hints in Azure SQL Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage 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 ...