Microsoft’s monthly update included 206 fixes for flaws in everything from Windows to Office to Exchange Server, not to mention three zero-days.

[!INCLUDE ssEnterpriseEd10] and later versions support backup compression. When creating a log shipping configuration, you can control the backup compression behavior of log backups. For more ...

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 ...

SQL Servers are databases that are brimming with data that can be more or less important. As such, the guide below will feature the best SQL server backup software that you can buy. We cover various ...

This blog post is part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Buffer Pool Parallel Scan is a new feature in SQL Server 2022 that improves the scalability of several common scenarios in SQL Server and as ...

Here, I am going to discuss some basic and most important configurations of the SQL Server Instance and Database Level which might be ignored and can cause performance issues. Although this is not the ...

On this page, you'll find ESXi Monitoring tools as well as Free Tools for VMware, Microsoft. This is one of the best selections of Free Tools for VMware and Microsoft. Monitoring tools for virtual ...

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment. My toolbox typically includes the tools that ...

Data classification: Added support for SQL Server version 10 (SQL Server 2008) and higher Added new sensitivity attribute ‘rank’ for SQL Server version 15 (SQL Server 2019) and higher and Azure SQL ...

Disclaimer: Microsoft's Sql Server and Sql Server Management Studio ( SSMS ) products can be downloaded from Microsoft's website. To the best of my knowledge both are completely free for any use, ...