Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. To ...

Microsoft has announced the release of SQL Server Management Studio Preview 3, which brings many features, including "initial ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

The addition of iPad support allows DBAs to remotely manage their SQL Server environment via an iPad device when 3G or Wifi coverage is available said a press release. RockSolid is a SQL Server ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. With these deadlines, agencies using these products should already have made progress on their ...

PowerShell gives DBAs a reason to begin using SMO for real, so now we'll find out about all the gory details I was talking to a good friend at Microsoft last week, telling him about the problems I’ve ...

SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part in ...

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I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...