This tutorial describes how to use change data capture (CDC) in Copy job to efficiently replicate data changes from Azure SQL Database to a destination. This ensures your destination data stays up to ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

Most development is maintaining and enhancing existing systems. Often times these systems do not have a way to recreate the database structure, but we need these structures to setup local development, ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

Both the above queries will create a new table "tblNewStudents" having same structure as table "tblStudents". The columns of table "tblStudents" along with datatype are copied but these quries will ...

I need to copy a mass amount of tables in SQL Server to the same database (obviously renaming the tables). I need to include constraints, keys, indexes, etc, as well as data. (we need to copy an old ...