[!INCLUDE ssEnterpriseEd10] and later versions support backup compression. When creating a log shipping configuration, you can control the backup compression behavior of log backups. For more ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

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Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source protocol that enables secure, two-way communication between AI assistants and data sources like databases, APIs, and enterprise tools. By ...

The Cloud SQL Python Connector is a Cloud SQL connector designed for use with the Python language. Using a Cloud SQL connector provides a native alternative to the Cloud SQL Auth Proxy while providing ...

A single installation of SQL server is called an instance. An instance can house many individual databases. These individual databases can either be system databases or user databases. In the context ...

Gichuhi Wachira holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and works as a front-end developer and technical writer with over two years of writing experience. He writes about various web ...

Here, I am going to discuss some basic and most important configurations of the SQL Server Instance and Database Level which might be ignored and can cause performance issues. Although this is not the ...

As described in our previous article, the packer configuration contains the decryption key of the packed binary as well as its original filename, its size and the execution type (EXE or DLL). The ...

The ability to restore databases from valid backups is a vital part of ensuring business continuity. Backup integrity and restorations are an important piece of the IT Governance Institute’s IT ...