SQL Server Drill Down explores all aspects of Microsoft SQL Server and related applications, with a particular emphasis on issues of interest to SQL Server data professionals. Key areas of focus ...

We’re all familiar with the IT “war room” scenario. When there’s an issue, members of the IT team come together to troubleshoot and find a solution. For organizations with important applications, such ...

“Database-backed.” “Powered by PostgreSQL.” “Cloud database.” “Redundant, multi-zone NoSQL backend.” Those are all terms that describe ecommerce systems that use databases. But, what, exactly, do ...

None of these connections were in the project plan. Each was added years earlier, for a sensible reason, by someone who no longer works there. This is the point at which many organizations bring in ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...

Understanding your customer base and planning early are essential steps when designing a scalable, multi-tenant database architecture that balances cost, performance and isolation. Building and ...

Rather than building a single database services for all needs, over its 15-year history, AWS has launched multiple cloud database services in an attempt to provide the full scope of capabilities that ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of deploying the NocoDB no-code database application development tool. Is your business looking for an easy way to create database applications, without ...

We’ve all done it. We needed to pull data out of an SQL database, and the query we needed to pull out data was a complex query with multiple table joins, complex filter criteria, and sophisticated ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

A team of Microsoft researchers led by Seny Kamara claims to have been successful at recovering a substantial amount of data from health records stored in CryptDB (PDF), a database technology that ...