Here’s one big advantage to moving to Microsoft Azure SQL Database—you never have to patch. That’s right. The various SKUs available in Azure’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering are automatically ...

This is an attempt at making a slightly dynamic query to modify in bulk a CMDB at work. Using SQL Server 2008. I'm trying to update a column with a specific value. I want the table, the column and the ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

Getting frustrated with my lack of SQL-foo ...<BR><BR>I want to update my 'main' table based on the query of an 'editor' table (a copy of the 'main' table with the additional field named delta which ...

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Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, announced SQL virtual database 1.3, the latest release for this solution that enables backup files to look and act just ...

Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

Microsoft made available for download on September 20 a Customer Technology Preview (CTP) test build of a first update to its SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its database. Microsoft released to ...