Over the years, servers have suffered terribly from malicious attacks that users had to take precautions now and then. Because of that, internet users need to determine how to repair a database in an ...

Information is stored somewhere. Sometimes it’s not suited for its original location. If you’re running low on disk space, added a new drive array, or just curious; this is a simple procedure to move ...

If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL, but ...

Step-By-Step: Learn the basics of using DTS in Microsoft SQL Server Your email has been sent Learn how Data Transformation Services (DTS) can help you import, export, and/or transform data from ...

Microsoft on Wednesday introduced tools to ease database administration for both the current and forthcoming edition of its SQL Server database. At an SQL Server customer conference in Seattle, the ...

In addition, he announced the availability of the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) for SQL Server 2000, a tool designed to help database administrators (DBAs) develop better, more maintainable SQL Server ...

SQL Server guru Denny Cherry is going to be telling stories during his upcoming session "Things You Should Never Do In Microsoft SQL Server" at the Nov. 17-22 Live! 360 conference at the Royal Pacific ...

Transaction logs are a vital yet often overlooked component of database architecture. They are often forgotten because they are not something actively maintained like the schema contained within a ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...