Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

Click the Start button and launch the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Click the Server Name menu and choose your server from the drop-down list. Click Connect.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals ...

FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder. FileTables is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012. It's a ...

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 ...

Create a database table to log data in SQL Server You might want to create the log table yourself as well. Below is the script you can use to create a log table in the SQL Server database.

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...