Auditing an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine or an individual database involves tracking and logging events that occur on the Database Engine. SQL Server audit lets you create server audits, ...

It used to be that finding and using a sample SQL database was quite simple. In fact, the venerable Pubs database used to be installed as part of the SQL Server installation process. Fast forward to ...

Applies to: SQL Server 2022 (16.x) and later versions Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance SQL database in Microsoft Fabric A SQL database project is a local representation of SQL objects ...

That’s all you need to know to get started with Azure SQL sample databases. But if – and you should – you want to learn a bit more around backup and restore in Azure SQL, read on. Azure SQL ...

The theme for this time is SQL "execution plans."Execution plans are one of the technologies you absolutely must understand when considering database performance.However, this content might also be a ...

This article provides an overview of the failover group feature with best practices and recommendations to use with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The failover groups feature allows you to manage the ...

A backup of an SQL database contains the database files (.mdf, .ndf), log files (.ldf), and other associated files. The files are backed with the help of the SQL Writer service. The service must be ...