Inside a relational database management system, the princi­pal persisted data structure is considered a logical relation. Operations performed against that data within the RDBMS result in a logical ...

If you were in IT in 2003, you remember what you were doing when Slammer went off like all civilians do when a president is shot. It was a Saturday…early Saturday. The SQL Slammer worm had been ...

I have a table that I'd can't delete items from. Instead, I set a "Deleted" field, so that later, we can view the old records for historical reporting.<BR><BR>I have a Unique index on the table across ...

This is introductory to SQL. I have over 10 queries I need to run/learn for my SQL exam. I am given about 10 tables and to display combination of 2-3 tables in each query. Is there any website that ...

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Join DBTA on Thursday February 17, at 11 am PT/ 2 pm ET for the third in an educational series of webcasts focused on managing and leveraging big data. The upcoming webcast will show how Amazon ...

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of. SQL Server 2016 provides ...

Microsoft at its Tech Ed conference in San Diego on Tuesday will tout plans to add data encryption to its SQL Server database and seek federal government security certification for the platform as ...

One reoccurring SQL Server question that I see: Why is my TempDB database so large and what can I go to reduce the size of TempDB? The answer requires some basic understanding of the internals of how ...

“The next frontier is all about uniting the power of the cloud with the power of data to gain insights that simply weren't possible even just a few years ago,” Kummert said. “Microsoft is committed to ...