Microsoft’s Active Directory has enabled Group Policy since Windows ... central control of both client and server machines. Wouldn’t that be nice for SQL Server specific features?

For the past several weeks I’ve been doing nothing but complaining about vendors so I thought I’d take a break and write something about SQL Server for ... automatically check on DBs that ...

Microsoft's SQL Server engineering team wants IT pros to keep up with cumulative update installations. IT pros should treat Microsoft's SQL Server cumulative updates in the same way as they treat ...

For these companies, help is on the way! SQL Server 2008 has a new feature called Policy-Based Management (PBM). PBM is a way to set behavioral policies for groups of servers and then manage the SQL ...

The following query can be used to determine the recovery model of the databases on your SQL Server instance. SELECT name, recovery_model_desc FROM sys.databases Before going into the importance ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running ... Follow the steps mentioned below. Finally, check if the server starts. If the services start, try connecting ...

Kumar also noted that with Synapse Link, SQL Server users can now run real-time analytics over their database without having to set up a complex infrastructure. “All you need to do is check a ...

If you’ve been managing databases for any length of time, you’ve probably had to contend with the “noisy neighbors” scenario. In this scenario, you have several applications, each with their own ...