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 ...

Knowing exactly what in-memory OLTP tables are used for will help you make the most of one of SQL Server's newest features. While in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) tables may sound like a ...

A conference being held in Denver this week by the Professional Association for SQL Server user group will provide a forum for the biggest public unveiling to date of Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server 2008 ...

There’s no doubt that cloud computing is growing due to the strong cost benefits, simplified management, and reduced hosting complexities. So it’s only fitting that we cap this series on the new ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

As we’ve come to expect from new SQL Server releases, SQL Server 2012 has so many new features that it’s impossible even to mention them all. Nearly everyone is well served, from the BI-hungry users ...

Microsoft will provide an early "community technology preview" version of Kilimanjaro for partners and customers sometime within the next 12 months, according to the company. The current release of ...

REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 27, 2002 — Join the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) as it hosts the PASS Community Summit — Seattle, the only user event exclusively dedicated to Microsoft® SQL ...

Update: About 24 hours after this report was published, BMC issued a statement that said in part: “BMC has confirmed that the password mentioned in the press is not a BMC-generated password. At this ...

The next version of Microsoft's flagship database will run Python scripts, with full access to Python third-party libraries, as native T-SQL stored procedures Don’t bring the data to your computation ...