Analysis Services Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) are queries that return information about model objects, server operations, and server health. The query, based on SQL, is an interface to schema ...

Important Dynamic management views and functions return internal, implementation-specific state data. Their schemas and the data they return may change in future releases of [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion].

Why are there INFOMATION_SCHEMA and catalog views in SQL Server that do very similar things? For example, to retrieve a list of tables in a database, I can do it via sys.tables or INFORMATION ...

Dynamic management views are used to "return server state information," according to an MSDN library article description. SP2 is available now to keep various editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 up to ...

Dynamic management views are used to "return server state information," according to an MSDN library article description. SP2 is available now to keep various editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 up to date ...

The final SQL Server 2012 service pack is now available for download. The latest official release for the half-decade-old version of Microsoft's database management system includes a rollup of all ...

In addition to StretchDB and AlwaysEncrypted, there are two more exciting features in the works for SQL Server 2016: dynamic data masking and row-level security. In the case of these two features, ...