IT needs to patch everything, but the Spectre/Meltdown patches come with their own problems, too. Here's how to limit the fallout. During my career in enterprise IT, the first couple of weeks of the ...

Querying relational databases requires SQL, which is the only language designed to communicate with them. As a matter of fact, how SQL is used distinguishes business intelligence tools from one ...

<p>eWeek has an article up discussing the possibility of Microsoft including automatic patching in the next version of SQL Server. The article is unclear about what exactly this would entail, but it ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

Adam is the author of the AdamtheAutomator.com blog, and works as a Microsoft systems administrator specializing in the Microsoft System Center suite and PowerShell automation. With 2016 rolling ...

SQL Server 2022: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database workhorse that powers both an internal line of business applications and ...

I'm trying to figure out how much of an application I'm working on can be run from inside the SQL Server database, as opposed to the running in an executable that accesses the database. I'm new to the ...

Choose a browser that suits your needs. Download the file in the language of your choice. For 64-bit operating systems, select ENU/x64/SQLManagementStudio_x64_ENU.exe. Sometimes database developers do ...