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On a late-night coding binge, I spun up a quick table for a one-off process on an instance SQL Server 2014—bare bones, nothing fancy. Earlier, I’d been reverse engineering a 20-year-old script where ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

In announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately. A Copilot for the tool that helps users manage, ...

Creating a Failover Cluster in the Windows server ensures high availability and reliability for apps and services. In this article, we will explain how to create a failover cluster in Windows Server, ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

In the modern digital landscape, data privacy has become a paramount concern. As individuals and organizations seek to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) while maintaining control over ...

--SQL Server code for Q1 resolution SELECT o.id AS order_id, p.latitude AS pickup_latitude, p.longitude AS pickup_longitude, d.latitude AS delivery_latitude, d.longitude AS delivery_longitude, ROUND( ...

There are several Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) and Dynamic Management Functions (DMFs) that can be used to monitor indexes in SQL Server. In this article, I will explain some of them.

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Time series data is a set of values organized in the order in which they occur and arrive for processing. Unlike transactional data in SQL Server, which is not ...