Microsoft Azure SQL Database is an excellent Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution for developers, business analysts, and database administrators given its ease of use and exemplary controls.

Database backups and restores are key to developing a secure environment for users’ information. A trusted backup plan is a requirement for on-premise and cloud instances. SQL Server database backups ...

If your business uses Microsoft SQL Server, you may want to have multiple instances of servers on multiple computers for synchronization or backup purposes. Microsoft SQL Manager lets you accomplish ...

Microsoft Corp. last week began letting SQL Server users who have Software Assurance contracts set up fail-over databases at no extra cost, a new policy that some customers said could give Microsoft ...

A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

Pity the poor modern DBA, now that SQL Server gets attacked by some of the same scripts that PCs do. Pity the poor modern DBA who has to keep building Microsoft SQL Servers because some idiot vice ...

BMC Software on Monday plans to announce management tools for Microsoft SQL Server databases that provide for a common platform for managing mixed database environments. The SmartDBA tools have a ...

One of the great new features of SQL Server 2008 is called Transparent Data Encryption. Data encryption was introduced into the Database Engine in SQL Server 2005, so why is 2008 so much better? Yes, ...