Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Here's a quick tip. Written by Arthur Fuller, Contributor. Contributor. March 4, 2004 at 12:45 a.m. PT.

SQL database in suspect mode: SQL database suspect mode is a frequent issue DBAs face due to damage in the primary file group file, which stops the database recovery during SQL Server startup. A SQL ...

Variations on SQL are used by some of the most popular database tools in the world, including some of Oracle's database systems, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft's SQL Server.

Method 2-Recover Database from an Existing Backup. If you fail to rebuild the corrupted Log files, then you can recover the SQL database from an existing backup using the below steps: First launch ...

Most Common Wait Types in SQL Server and What They Mean. ASYNC_NETWORK_IO—The async_network_io wait types point to network-related issues. They are most-often caused by a client application not ...

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational cloud database service that provides broad SQL Server engine compatibility and allows you to dynamically scale database resources up and down ...

To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages. I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article.

Databases that perform, are reliable and are relatively easy to manage have been Microsoft's calling card since SQL Server 7, and that's why it continues to make significant investments in the ...

SQL Server has an optimizer that usually does a great job of optimizing code for the most effective execution. A query execution plan is the breakdown of how the optimizer will run (or ran) a query.