I have a SQL Server database that's 145GB, about 80% of that space is occupied by "files". Staff have the ability to upload files from the web front end application into the database, this is used to ...

There has always been the debate as to whether to store binary large object (BLOB) data such as images, documents, audio and video inside the database or outside on the file system. The problem with ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

My drive space is limited (10GB, I usually have less than 1GB free). I am backing up my SQL Server database nightly using a script that saves the backups to files on the VM's disk. Are there any cloud ...