Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...

> If you're uncertain about how to format a data file for bulk importing, use the **bcp** utility to export data from the table into a data file. The formatting of each data field in this file shows ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

With SQL Server 2005 many things have been changed. In earlier versions in order to make it work, SQL Mail relied on having a MAPI mail client installed like Outlook. This has changed with SQL Server ...

Sometimes we need to change database name because the original name was based on the project that has become irrelevant to the data stored into the database or you had given temporarily name before ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...