Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

Microsoft has released another test version of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database and has introduced a free management tool. The company made the second "community technology preview" of SQL ...

Once you have this module downloaded and installed, it's time to get started. To test a SQL database connection, you'll need at least four pieces of information: the user name password, database name ...

The SSMA Tester also currently targets Azure SQL Database and Managed Instances as the migration destinations and offers the ability to store and run test cases through a stream­lined process on your ...

Microsoft is allowing testers to register, as of December 7, for a public Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of the reporting services technology for its SQL Azure cloud database.

They each start out with their own work, process it, and eventually put it into a SQL database.<BR><BR>Unfortunately, its not easy to predict how long each work load will take, so the distribution ...

I have been using these features in testing for a while, and during the conference, I had a chance to speak with Joe Sack, Principal Product Manager for Azure SQL Database, about the new features.

It’s generally good practice to run such software on test or non-production ... tweaks Microsoft made to its database. According to the company, SQL Server 2017 recently set new benchmarks ...

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