The view name, once defined, database users may reference this view as if it were a physical table. Whenever the controlling mechanism within the database sees a query against a view, it simply drags ...

When you use index views in the right situations, they can dramatically improve the performance of SQL Server queries. Tim Chapman explains why performance testing is the best way to tell if ...

How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises? Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics.

The administrative aspect of Copilot here is more like the ChatGPT experience than the T-SQL query builder. You can ask questions like "Why is my database slow?" [Click on image for larger view.] ...

This is a special software designed to repair corrupt SQL Server database files. It can rebuild the database, including the log file. This software repairs the database based on the SQL Server data ...

To find the database name you can pipe the output of Get-AzureSqlDatabasServer directly to Get-AzureSqlDatabase. You can see here that I'll be using a database name of myazuredatabase. [Click on image ...

When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I ...