SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part ...

SQL Server 2008 has a ton of new DBA features, but if you really want to make this thing go, just crank out a little code. SQL Server 2008 is mostly in the domain of system and database ...

Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server. You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to ...

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.

I'm new at this whole DBA thing, so maybe this is totally standard practice.But we have a software vendor that wants remote access to our SQL server at an admin level to setup and install software ...

Types of SQL Server Database Corruption SQL page-level corruption: page-level corruption occurs when the information or data stored in the header, body, or slot array of a database page is altered ...

In this article, author Randal Hoff shows how to use Multi-Record Type pattern to provide both NoSQL and SQL access to c-treeACE data that combines multiple schemas in a single table.

SQL Server 2016 seeks to make encryption easier via its new Always Encrypted feature. This feature offers a way to ensure that the database never sees unencrypted values without the need to ...