If CheckID 260 was not skipped and ran successfully, CheckID 261 reuses the same output temp table to not have to call xp_cmdshell more times than needed All these 4 checks are added to the checks to ...

The min_grant_percent query hint wasn't available in 2014 RTM, so need to do a little version checking before adding that hint. I'm just going to add it on SQL Server 2016 & newer to keep things ...

SQL Server isn't on the kind of update schedule that characterizes Visual Studio these days, when it's unusual for two months to go by without some sort of release. But one version is getting a new ...

By Scott Bekker 05/07/2005 Microsoft on Friday posted Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000, the first service pack update for the company's flagship database server since early 2003.

By Kurt Mackie 10/07/2011 Microsoft on Thursday released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for SQL Server 2008. The new service pack arrives about one year after the release of Service Pack 2.