As organizations face increasing pressure to modernize their applications and infrastructure, the benefits of the cloud have become impossible to ignore. Fortunately, Azure SQL Database managed ...

Monitoring performance has always been a big challenge for database administrators. Many databases do not have a convenient interface for performance monitoring and force database administrators ...

Configure Database Engine Instances (SQL Server) Describes how to manage the collation for an instance of the [!INCLUDEssDE]. Collations define the bit patterns used to represent characters, and ...

Extend Azure services to SQL Server instances hosted outside of Azure. Learn more. ... Azure SQL is a family of managed, secure, and intelligent products that use the SQL Server database engine in the ...

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.

Get acquainted with SQL Server configuration tasks so that you can configure a Database Engine instance to meet performance and availability requirements. When a database is deployed into production ...