Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...

To prevent and diagnose availability, health, and performance issues it is essential to review and manage the configuration of SQL Server instances and databases. Whether you want to view and modify ...

SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

Understanding your customer base and planning early are essential steps when designing a scalable, multi-tenant database ...

After the mirror database is prepared (see Prepare a Mirror Database for Mirroring (SQL Server)), you can establish a database mirroring session. The principal, mirror, and witness server instances ...

The first installment of this TechRepublic series focused on C# developer interview questions. It generated a lively discussion on the merits of such questions and the different approaches to ...

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Use this quick tip from Arthur Fuller to show you how. Sometimes your application needs to know the specific directory ...