We encourage all our customers running SQL Server 2016 to start planning for the end of support. We have migration resources, best practices, as well as a rich ecosystem of partners ready to help.

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database.

In November, Microsoft released version 18.4 for the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), introducing some key features such as support for materialized view scripts in SQL Data Warehouse.

When generating a SQL file for Microsoft SQL Server using Ant, the update statement to lock the database is done prior to the USE statement. When running the SQL script in SQL Server Management Studio ...