Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...

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I realized after reviewing the past few posts that I omitted a new piece of functionality introduced in SQL Server 2008 R2. This feature, known as Extended Protection for Authentication (Extended ...

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This week we will discuss how to troubleshoot different assembly errors that we get while troubleshooting installs for SQL Server. I’ll focus this article more on SQL Server and Windows systems.

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

Lansweeper has issued a stark warning to enterprise administrators regarding the looming issue of outdated Microsoft SQL Server instances. Company Chief Strategy Officer Roel Decneut revealed (via The ...