A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment ...

Using plain ‘ol PL/SQL scripts But What’s the Big Deal? Doing Oracle schema compare is not like playing Spot the Difference. That fun classic game gives you two almost identical images and you need to ...

Generates a schema-only, read-only copy of a database using DBCC CLONEDATABASE to investigate performance issues related to the query optimizer. Learn more.

The Prerequisite Before diving into the script, you need to ensure that the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) component “Invoke-Sqlcmd” is installed. This component is essential for executing SQL ...

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3. This version is focused mainly on addressing community feedback and resolved almost 100 tickets. Additionally, there are some new features: an ...

You can create a Full Backup to restore database in SQL Server using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). For this, open SSMS, right-click the database, and select Tasks > Back Up.

This tool is no longer actively maintained. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio provides a Generate Scripts Wizard that provides similar functionality to mssql-scripter. We’re excited to introduce ...

It's not hard to create and run a shell script in Linux distros like Ubuntu, but there are a few non-obvious pitfalls you need to avoid. Here's a quick example of how to execute a script in Linux.

Last week at work I was given a folder of 1,500 scripts – can you imagine having to open each file in Management Studio to be able to execute it?