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It's SQL Server 7.<P>It's a few development databases, and there are 3 people that may make changes throughout the day. I'm not exactly in charge, but I don't trust the other two people that are ...

Many books, blogs, and articles on using Groovy with Windows rightly point out that some of the commonly used commands in Windows are not actually executables, but are instead built-in commands. These ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA. Here are the key concepts to understand about cloud scripting and a rundown of the best tools for automating code in ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...