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, ...

Microsoft SQL is a relational database you can configure to run as multiple copies, or instances, on a single computer. When running a small business, keeping multiple instances of Microsoft SQL on a ...

1. Change registry key SqlCluster in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.x\Setup\ from 1 to 0 2. Disable TCP/IP in Server Network Protocols and enabled Named Pipes from ...

I'm trying to copy a database from one server (SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition) to another (SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition) to make sure the second is suitable as a backend to some terrifying ...

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PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

One of the most useful features in Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) product is its reporting engine. Even though there is nothing overly difficult about its installation process, ...

Organizations running SQL Server 2005 will be cut off when it comes to official support next year, Microsoft announced this week. SQL Server 2005 will exit its "extended support" product lifecycle ...

While working with SQL Server databases, if you often find the database performance sluggish, it could be due to bad coding of procedures or incorrectly set database variables. Here's a tool that can ...

AWS announced that Amazon Relation Database Service (Amazon RDS) is offering 4 new capabilities to help customers optimize their costs as well as improve efficiency and scalability for their Amazon ...