A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

Today, at Microsoft Build, Microsoft announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025 -- the latest release of their premier database product. I've been in the private preview program for SQL ...

I have a function that uses a geography data ... it's tough to compare database performance between disparate workloads. An interesting design difference is that SQL Server caches execution ...

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For more information about strong password requirements, see “Database Engine Configuration – Account Provisioning” in Setup Help or in SQL Server 2019 Books Online. You might also get a ...

Product Azure Azure Data Lake Azure Synapse Analytics SQL Server 2022 Ever since Microsoft introduced SQL Server Stretch Database in 2016, our guiding principles for such hybrid data storage solutions ...

This system stored procedure takes a table name as a parameter and generates a MERGE statement containing all the table data. This is useful if you need to migrate static data between databases, eg.

In this paper, we introduce two spatial data types provided by SQL Server 2008 which refers to Geometry and Geography. As with Shapefile data ... in terms of ontology combining with spatial database ...