SQL Server jobs are used to regularly perform the same sequence of commands in your SQL Server database. This tutorial provides an example of how to create a SQL ...

Command-line utilities enable you to script [!INCLUDE ssdenoversion-md] operations. The following table contains a list of several command-line utilities that ship with [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion]. For ...

Microsoft security researchers recently identified a campaign where attackers attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through a SQL Server instance. This attack technique demonstrates an ...

The cloud is becoming increasingly distributed, with container technologies allowing easy deployment of what had been cloud functionality to devices at the edge of the network. What began with ...

There are a variety of commercial security tools 1 available to audit Microsoft (MS) SQL Server databases. However, there can be instances when their application is not practical, including: For ...

I will not cover the entire SCOM installation, but just the part of Databases configuration. Note that the Availability Groups (one or two, depending of your architecture) must be created before the ...