In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...

So you decided to set up log shipping in order to establish a failover server, but what's next? Log shipping only takes care of keeping a user database in sync from one server to the other. In the ...

Learn tips for administering SQL Server securely. Of course, you might not have a domain at all. In this case, each server maintains its own SID database of users and objects. If users want access to ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

There are lots of ways to handle databases in a containerized environment like Docker. Here's how to create SQL Server in a container, how to load it with the data you want and how to integrate that ...