Welcome to this new series -- in this column, I hope to impart some quick, short tips that will help you make quick work of managing and administering your SQL Server databases. First up is an ...

How do I copy tables in SQL Server 2005 to a new instance while maintaining the foreign keys and identity columns in the source instance? The import/export function in Management Studio creates tables ...

I'm doing some development on a dev server of ours for a site that's currently live on another server. They have their own server with a SQL Server database holding the data for the live site. So as ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...