Three years ago, a client asked me a question I now hear at least once a month: "Should we run our SQL Server on Azure or AWS?" It sounds simple. It isn't. The team had already short-listed AWS RDS ...

Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

Looking for a Stellar Repair for MS SQL review? You’ve come to the right place. I recently got hands-on with the SQL database recovery software and explored its key features, ease of use, pricing, and ...

This tutorial shows how to create an Always On availability group for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) within multiple subnets. The complete tutorial creates a Windows Server Failover ...

[!INCLUDEssNoVersion] Remote BLOB Store (RBS) is an optional add-on component that lets database administrators store binary large objects in commodity storage solutions instead of directly on the ...

The FileTable feature brings support for the Windows file namespace and compatibility with Windows applications to the file data stored in SQL Server. FileTable lets an application integrate its ...

In the previous blog Merge Operations, we described that how a CFP transitions across various stages in its life cycle. In this blog, we will walk through an actual example to show the state ...

Well yes you have finally found it! A complete tutorial on how to save and retrieve images from the SQL Server 2008 database in a C# WPF application. For Windows Forms application, check out this ...

I think storing images in a database can save a developer loads of time and can ease his life while dealing with visuals, either creating a local application or a web application. Think of storing ...

On the heels of SQL Server 2008 being released to manufacturing last week, SQL Server 2008 Express was made available for download today. As with SQL Server 2005 Express, SQL Server 2008 Express will ...