Optimizing database performance is an ongoing task and one which relies not only on the skill and experience of the administrator but also the assistance of a number of impactful tools that they ...

Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements.

The SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment tool (VA) is a feature within SQL Server Management Server (SSMS) 17.4 that scans your SQL Server instances of version 2012 and later, identifies security ...

SQL Advisor SQL Server Data Tools: A Work in Progress I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is ...

The VDT designers were hosted in the Visual InterDev shell and introduced a new database project type that served as a container for Transact SQL (T-SQL) scripts generated by the tools. Before VDT, ...

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies ...

SQL Database Repair Tool Could Save Your Business Considering the complexity of SQL Server database and the different types of errors and corruption it can face, it is imperative to maintain an ...

In the box that appears, specify the SQL Server and database hosting the data to be profiled (I’m using the AdventureWorksLT2012 database) then click OK.

SQL Data Discovery & Classification, a tool within Microsoft's SQL Server 2019, could inform attackers which data within a database is labeled sensitive, and which isn't, researchers report.