There's a problem with schemas in SQL2K5 that I encountered again this week, and I put my head to it and developed a very elegant solution that I thought I'd share with everyone. Problem: When you ...

I am looking for suggestions on an alternative product for comparing SQL schema and data with Microsoft SQL server (2012). Up to this point in time our company has used Red Gate SQL Compare and SQL ...

Why are there INFOMATION_SCHEMA and catalog views in SQL Server that do very similar things? For example, to retrieve a list of tables in a database, I can do it via sys.tables or ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...