Sounds like the transactions are closing and then opening again.

If the question is, how to run a bunch of scripts at once, I'd suggest taking a look at Powershell threading. It's a pretty easy way to launch a...

According to the documentation I'm familiar with, pure SQL Server replication is only supported with AWS RDS as a Subscriber. It's a mechanism to get you into AWS RDS. However,...

It's right in the Microsoft documentation. You can do that. I'm not sure you should (data movement out of Azure has some cost overhead), but you can.

Yes. Azure Managed Instance works in a very similar way. You can simply restore a database there. Although, you should know, that you can't take a backup from there and...

Okay, this is VERY weird. My last post, when I hit submit, errored out with "Are you sure you want to do that?"

And when I hit submit again, it...

I've always been concerned but, as I get older, I seriously worry about the medical world and hospitals and the people in them when I see things like the...

And, on top of what Steve says, 2012 is on the way out in terms of support from Microsoft. You're going to be much better served learning from much more...

The key here is to take advantage of the fact that you can store your data in the way that is most advantageous to the majority of queries. If the...

The keys should be unique. There's not a single product key for everyone. Sounds like maybe that vendor is less than completely above board.

Since you're posting in a SQL Server 2017 forum, I'm going to give an answer that applies to 2012 or greater. Less than 2012, it's a different answer.

Don't enable the...

Although SQL Server lacks the necessary capabilities, third-party software exists that does. RedGate used to get something like this, but I believe it was discontinued... although I might be...

One thing to know, SQL comes in various flavors. While there's quite a lot of commonality, querying T-SQL in SQL Server is different than querying PL/SQL in Oracle, which is...

So, you're best bet is start with a CSV file. Instead of trying to take MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle backups/dumps, export the data into a common format; CSV, JSON, whatever. Then, import from...

On this web site, if you look at the top of the screen, are a series of lessons, utterly free, called Stairways. They cover things from T-SQL querying to backups...