I'm glad you asked. To successfully copy a login from one server to another, you'll need to ensure that the copy has the same SID and password. The link between database users and logins is done with ...

I needed to copy the SQL Server database, with its most recent schema changes, down to my laptop for a client demonstration at a location where Internet connectivity might not be available. Even ...

There's a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

I'm doing some development on a dev server of ours for a site that's currently live on another server. They have their own server with a SQL Server database holding the data for the live site. So ...