SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases.

Understanding Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads.

MultiValue databases continue to underpin critical applications in many organizations, but frequently there is also the need to integrate MV data with another database management system, and often ...

That is not the case. What the NOLOCK hint does is enforce SQL Server's Read Uncommitted isolation level, which allows for what is known as dirty reads. What does this mean for your application?

According to market research from International Data Corporation (IDC), Microsoft's SQL Server product is slowly catching up to Oracle and IBM in relational database management system (RDBMS ...