Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

When the Historic District of Foggy Bottom in Northwest Washington was established in the 1800s, the founders didn’t know the legacy they were creating. Today, residents work to preserve and enhance ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

The new ledger feature in SQL Server 2022 provides blockchain-based security to ensure data isn't tampered with. The ability to cryptographically guarantee the integrity of data is especially useful ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced adding WITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...