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.

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...

Based on the expertise of Intelligent Converters specialists gained from a variety of migration projects, this whitepaper reveals best practices, key bottlenecks, and some tips and tricks for ...

When working with dates and times in SQL Server, it’s common for formatting discrepancies to cause issues during query execution. To prevent errors, it’s crucial to ensure that date strings are ...

On computers, data is stored using a variety of numerical formats. Many programming languages and applications use hexadecimal notation for numbers. Whereas decimal number formatting uses base ten, ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (RTM-CU13) (KB5036432) - 16.0.4125.3 (X64) Azure SQL AWS RDS with latest available engine (2022) When inserting an OffsetDateTime with both seconds and nanoseconds set to ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

When planning a database migration, the main goals of a database specialist or another person responsible for this task are: To reach the best performance and reliability of the target database To ...

I've been facing an issue when trying to use Dapper to insert data into SQL Server. The particular problem seems to lie with the DateTime and Guid conversion. MyModel: public class UserModel { public ...

Diablo 4 fans are counting down to the big Server Slam event taking place this weekend. Billed as the final chance to play Diablo 4 ahead of launch, this weekend's Server Slam has a May 12 release ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...