SQL Server

See how SQL Server Stretch Databases can extend your data to the hybrid cloud and it is easy to configure too.

Microsoft Excel causes problems in genetic research. That’s the claim of three researchers from an Australian institute, who discovered almost 20% of data sets contained errors introduced by Excel. The problem is Excel being “clever”—guessing the type of data it’s being asked to import. Unfortunately…

Always Encrypted is a feature of SQL Server 2016 that Microsoft released in Azure SQL Database in June 2016. Russell describes what Always Encrypted technology is and how it works with Azure SQL Database.

Russell shows how to create your first Azure SQL Database, configure a firewall and connect to the database using Visual Studio.

Aidan Finn provides his take on why Microsoft’s is releasing its SQL Server platform to the open source Linux platform.

Microsoft is making it much easier for you to deploy SQL Server inside of Azure VMs in the Azure Portal.

Aidan Finn shows us how to implement Storage Spaces inside a Windows Server 2012 R2 Azure virtual machine to aggregate the capacity and performance potential of multiple data disks.

Blair Greenwood shares her list of top SQL Server experts on Twitter to follow on Twitter to make your SQL Server learning experience easier.

Dynamic Memory is not one-size-fits-all! Discover the many ways to use (or not use) Hyper-V Dynamic Memory in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Get ready, get SetSPN… GO! Michael Simmons shows you how to how to specify a user or computer account to be identified with an SPN by using the SetSPN utility.