As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

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Kevin Kline is president of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), an independent group for users of Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server database. PASS is holding its annual conference in ...

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

SQL Server and Azure SQL Database have a property called compatibility level. Microsoft supports compatibility levels back to SQL Server 2008 and has committed to keep those in newer releases of the ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

Microsoft announced the first release candidate (a.k.a. RC1) for SQL Server 2017 on Monday, July 17 th. Release candidates are not a final and finished product, but they are feature complete. No new ...

Many customers choose to run their Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon RDS for SQL Server to take advantage of its fully-managed services, high performance, and straight forward homogeneous ...

Kevin Kline is president of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), an independent group for users of Microsoft Corp.’s flagship data¿base. PASS is holding its annual conference in Seattle ...