Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Use this quick tip from Arthur Fuller to show you how. Sometimes your application needs to know the specific directory ...

You want to be able to know if a database server is down, what applications are going to have problems since they use databases residing on that server.

When should you scale your database? The short answer often is: Don't scale until you have to. It is important to understand-and exhaust-all of your options for improving database performance first.

SQL Server 2022 has more Intelligent Query Processing features to speed up existing workloads and database applications with what Khan calls “minimal implementation effort.” ...