Over the years, servers have suffered terribly from malicious attacks that users had to take precautions now and then. Because of that, internet users need to determine how to repair a database in an ...

Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder. FileTables is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012. It's a ...

In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...

If you don’t have a backup of your MS SQL database, then follow the below ways to recover deleted data. Transaction log files record each change made to the ...

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

Despite the plentiful information in Books Online and on the official “SQL Server 2000 Security” document Microsoft offers online, setting up a truly secure SQL Server remains a difficult task. In ...

Ok, I'm trying to write a query in a stored procedure in SQL Server 2000. Because some of the parts of the query vary based on certain situations I construct a string that contains the query and then ...

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 ...

Despite the plentiful information in Books Online and on the official “SQL Server 2000 Security” document Microsoft offers online, setting up a truly secure SQL Server remains a difficult task. In ...