Microsoft recently updated its All-In-One Script Framework, which features SQL Server (and other) scripts designed to address common problems reported by users in forums, support incidents and online ...

Here is a feature that I have been waiting for since I started working with SQL Server 6.5: the ability to script the data from a table. When you deploy a SQL Server database, you often need to ...

Man, I <I>really</I> do not want to do this by hand.<P>To put it simply:<P>I have a bunch of SQL Server 7 scripts.<BR>I need them to be a bunch of Oracle 8.1.6 scripts instead.<BR>Is there any ...

Last week the Data Driver wondered if SQL Server was behind the recent Hotmail outage. The answer is: No. It was a script error, according to a Windows Blog post by Mike Schackwitz, pointed out to me ...

At its Ignite conference in Orlando today, Microsoft released a new version of its core relational database, SQL Server. The new version, SQL Server 2019, takes important capabilities in its previous ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...