SQL Server’s End of Life Puts the Spotlight on Database as a Service Many IT managers are already looking at the possibility of shifting workloads to cloud service providers. Although larger ...

During the last few articles, we have covered the basics of working with SQL server using the Server Management Objects (SMO) and PowerShell. We have covered things such as viewing the state of ...

SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform (which is available as a Community Technology Preview [CTP] as of this writing), includes exciting ...

This excerpt from the upcoming book, SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action, introduces the role of service-level agreements (SLAs) as part of a DBA's overall strategy to maintaining reliable ...

RLS lets administrators provide row-level access to data based on a user's identity or role. The company released the RLS feature in its Azure SQL Database last week.