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A collection of 26 free stand-alone tools, components and frameworks has been released. This collection is designed to enhance using and developing for SQL Server 2008 as well as other versions of SQL ...

xSQL Software, a provider of SQL Server auxiliary tools and utilities, announced today the availability of xSQL Object 1.5, a utility for SQL Server database administrators and developers that ...

OLE DB Driver for SQL Server uses the term data source for the set of OLE DB interfaces used to establish a link to a data store, such as [!INCLUDEssNoVersion]. Creating an instance of the data source ...

A novella size of SQL Server database best practices, all for free. Some of the links do not work yet as indicated by the "TODO" text tag. This is being converted to be more readable form from the ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 brings new performance and scalability gains by introducing In-Memory OLTP. In-Memory OLTP contains tables and indexes optimized for in memory. Transactions execute under ...

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Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...