With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Almost 20 percent of running Microsoft SQL Servers have passed their end-of-life (EoL) date - from next month it could even be 32 percent. The visibility provider Lansweeper has scanned over one ...

It turns out DB2 supports a Quiesce statement. So does Oracle. Even Sharepoint does. But not Microsoft SQL Server. Then I found a great article on MSDN entitled “How to: Quiesce a Replication Topology ...

The daily routine of an IT professional remains largely reactive. A lot of time and budget is spent responding to tickets, limiting the time that we spend creating systems that drive growth and ...

A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. SQL Server is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual ...

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s support for ...

Update: Microsoft released SQL Server 2019 CU8 with a fix for the reliability issue that impacted SQL Server 2019 CU7. Microsoft pulled the Cumulative Update package 7 (CU7) for SQL Server 2019 ...