on system databases packaged with SQL Server. Here’s a rundown of the system databases. (Note: If you decide to explore these system databases, make sure you do so on a development server.) ...

SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems Microsoft is throwing more transactional database systems into its Fabric analytics ...

One of the most useful features in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is its reporting engine. Installing it can get a little tricky, though. Here's a step-by-step guide.

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had.If you wanted the database to handle more data and run ...

With the 2022 release, SQL Server will now also support database backup to/restore from any Amazon S3-compliant object storage system. Also read: Microsoft's PolyBase mashes up SQL Server and Hadoop ...

In the first of this two-part series, Microsoft's lead SQL architect explains how the company collects -- and secures -- telemetry data from Azure SQL Database customers to improve its engineering ...

To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages. I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article.

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 ...

They were introduced in SQL Server 2005 as an alternative to system tables. One example is viewing operating system wait statistics via this query: SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_wait_stats; ...