5 SQL Server Components You Should Be Using Microsoft's rapid-fire release cycle for SQL Server means it's easy for database admins to miss useful new features. Here are some recent additions that ...

Microsoft released its third Community Technical Preview for SQL Server 2005 this month with a new ad hoc reporting tool and 64-bit support for more components of Microsoft's flagship database. As the ...

So, the installation works fine until it reaches the stage where it needs to install Microsoft SQL Server, as it fails to install that and other components in line to get installed. Then you will ...

That meant if you wanted to install SSMS on a workstation without also installing SQL Server, you still had to download the ponderously large 4Gb file that also included all other components of SQL ...

Cross feature compatibility means that they’re not interested in implementing JSON in other SQL Server components, so instead everything that already works with NVARCHAR (aka everything ...

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...

SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship ... Dynamic data masking has a few components: privileged logins, masking rules, and masking functions. Privileged logins are those ...