TL;DR: Make the file-sharing process easier with this Transfr Pro Fast and Secure File Transfer lifetime subscription, on sale now for $99.99 (MSRP $499). Sending large files doesn’t have to be a ...

The first proposed catalog of 'configuration smells' reveals widespread issues like context bloat, skill leakage, and ...

Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

1. Temporary Object Storage: TempDB stores temporary tables, variables, and other objects created during query execution, sorting, and other operations. 2. Work Tables and Spools: During query ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Backup and restore to simple storage service (S3)–compatible object storage is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2022 that grants the user the capability ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

The SQL Repay tool was created since SQL Server's Replay feature is based on SQL Server Profiler traces rather than SQL Server Extended Events. Other key features of the SQL Replay tool: We don't want ...

When it comes to analytics, SQL has many advanced functions. In this article, we will look at window functions, focusing on the OVER clause that accepts the following parameters: We will be looking at ...

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...