Note – This book abbreviates SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services as SSRS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services as SSRS2K5. New features available in SSRS and not in SSRS2K5 are labeled with ...

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Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

Subscribe for free. Docker based SQL Server containers can be used today. SQL Server containers present a new option for support of development/test and continuous integration scenarios.

Recursion is implemented in standard SQL-99 using common table expressions (CTEs). DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL all support recursive queries using CTEs. Note that Oracle also ...

which can be provided both on your own SQL server and directly as an Azure SQL Database. Microsoft provides instructions. Please note that Integrated Security=false was set in the connection ...

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client. SQL Server ...