Organizations may have many concerns about performance when migrating databases to Azure. Fortunately, Microsoft provides some great tools to help improve performance and save money. In this article, Monica Rathbun explains how to take advantage of these features.
Today Steve gives reasons why he thinks the RDBMS is often better than a NoSQL database of any sort.
In this tip we look at a PowerShell script that can be used to compare actual files that exist against a list of files that should exist for a project to identify any missing files.
Data warehouses and lakes are often loaded from other data, so should they be immutable?
Sometimes performance is more important than exact accuracy. Learn how to get an approximate count in SQL Server with better performance.
One thing I learned while working as a database administrator over 17 years is the importance of teamwork across departments. Many times, we have to rely on network and SAN administrator to make changes to their environments in order to make SQL Server run more efficiently. There are times where the storage and network create […]
Will employee data become a target of hackers? It's likely more a movie plot than reality, at least, Steve hopes so.
In this article, the second in the series, Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to manage the SQL Server security with granting permissions to users, logins, and groups.
Learn about how selecting a SQL Server index fill factor can impact storage and performance. Check out the included scripts to help give you better insight.
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In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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