Windows 11 24H2, Office 2021, and SQL Server 2016 headline a long list of Microsoft products losing support in 2026. See the ...

Object Explorer Menu is a free, open-source extension for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), developed in C#. It enables users to add custom menu items to the right-click context menu within the ...

Microsoft delivered fixes for issues affecting everything from Windows to Office, .NET, and SQL Server, and several patches that should be deployed ASAP. Microsoft this week released 139 updates ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Database administrator with 14+ years of hands-on experience in database management and database design. This DMV tracks how often indexes — including heap tables (which have index_id = 0) — are used ...

Of course, it’s frustrating to discover a corrupted database on your SQL Server for apparent reasons. You can’t access the information, and your work stops. However, you can fix this problem in many ...

Get up and running—and avoid the setup pitfalls—with this enterprise-class, open-source database available for all major platforms. For years now, PostgreSQL has been one of the best-kept secrets of ...

I've seen a lot of outstanding, high-level work in several of the submissions to the DevOps Writing Contest. However, few individuals consider how to keep the database up to date on common standbys ...