Procedure to move Microsoft SQL Server database to a new location, painlessly, if you’re running low on disk space, added a new drive array, or just curious.

SQL Servers allow the import or export of database diagrams to another database. All the information related to a database is stored in the dtproperties table. Therefore, to import or export a ...

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 ...

How to See Everyone Logged Into SQL Server. ... Using a terminal window, you can log into a SQL Server database and with one command have an instant look at who exactly is logged into the server.

In Azure SQL Database you can also set a HISTORY_RETENTION_PERIOD (and should be able to do it in SQL Server 2017) to control how far back in time your history will extend. Converting Existing Table ...

Ok, I'm trying to understand how to approach this.I need to design a personnel database.Employees can see all of their own records.Managers can see all of the info for the employees beneath them ...

There's a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

In an earlier column, I showed how to create a temporal table in SQL Server 2016 or Azure SQL Database. Once you've defined a temporal table, SQL Server automatically keeps a history of all the ...