Configure SQL Jobs in SQL Server using T-SQL
SQL Server Agent is a component used for the database tasks automation. For instance, we need to...
Configure Database Mirroring in SQL Server
Database mirroring is a SQL Server high availability solution provided by Microsoft, with the following components. Principal database...
Deploying the first SQL to Azure Migration project with Azure Database Migration Service
Azure Database Migration Service (ADMS) supports Schema and Data migration from different database technologies to the Azure platform. This...
Deploying a Database on Azure SQL
Introduction Azure SQL Database is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offered by Microsoft Azure....
3 Nasty I/O Statistics That Lag SQL Query Performance
“But it ran fine on our development server!” How many times did I hear it when SQL query performance issues occurred here and there? I...
How to use Stopwords and Stoplist to improve SQL Server Full-Text Search (FTS)
The current article is about Stopwords and Stoplist usage. The aim is to make Full-Text Search more efficient in terms of storage and...
10 Tips & Tricks To Work With SQL Server Management Studio
SSMS provides access for managing and solving queries in SQL. However, besides its primary and most...
Deploying a Certificate for Encrypted Connection SQL Server
Introduction Last year we got a requirement to ensure encrypted connections to our SQL Server instances. Before, we did not think it was...
How to Configure Database Mail in SQL Server
INTRODUCTION Notifications are usual in most modern systems. SQL Server implemented means of sending notifications by email early with the...
How to Make Sense of SQL Server Geography Data Type
SQL Server Geography data type is unlike other types simply because you don’t use it often....