Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is a relational database management system (DBMS) for Windows platforms that can be used for building, deploying and managing applications located on premises or in the cloud ...

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Whether your organization is migrating from an existing SQL Server installation, migrating from a different relational database system, or starting from scratch with its first database server, SQL ...

When working with my customers on SQL Server security, I constantly get the same question, “What are some best practices for hardening my SQL Server implementation?” Over the years, I have come up ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).