So you decided to set up log shipping in order to establish a failover server, but what's next? Log shipping only takes care of keeping a user database in sync from one server to the other. In the ...

I have worked with SQL Server for many years now, back to Sybase SQL Server days and there has always been confusion over Logins and Users. Even though they typically use the same name they are ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them. Initially created in the 1970s, ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...