Excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed. By Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, and Alex T. Silverstein Published by Sams ISBN-10: 0-672-33056-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33056-8 ...

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

(Note: this SQL example also represents other security problems in that passwords in the database appear to be stored in plain text. However, that is outside the scope of this article, and encryption ...

Speaking of the database engine, the SQL Server development team continues to push for even better performance capabilities. For example, SQL Server 2019 has a new recovery feature called Accelerated ...

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 ...

How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises? Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics.

Copilot for Azure SQL Database has limited private preview and no pricing information. Microsoft has indicated to me that this will be a paid offering but has offered no pricing model.

To find the database name you can pipe the output of Get-AzureSqlDatabasServer directly to Get-AzureSqlDatabase. You can see here that I'll be using a database name of myazuredatabase. [Click on image ...

How to Create Full Database Backup Using T-SQL If you want to automate the backup, you can use the T-SQL code. T-SQL is the SQL Server language used to automate SQL Server tasks. The following example ...

Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English ...