I'm trying to copy a database from one server (SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition) to another (SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition) to make sure the second is suitable as a backend to some terrifying ...

Microsoft announced this week that it plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

AWS announced that Amazon Relation Database Service (Amazon RDS) is offering 4 new capabilities to help customers optimize their costs as well as improve efficiency and scalability for their Amazon ...

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.

One of the most useful features in Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) product is its reporting engine. Even though there is nothing overly difficult about its installation process, ...

Organizations running SQL Server 2005 will be cut off when it comes to official support next year, Microsoft announced this week. SQL Server 2005 will exit its "extended support" product lifecycle ...