A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Here's a quick tip.

How to Restore a SQL Database From a .MDF File. Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure.

That was all that was required to set up View Composer to use my database. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 9. Entering database information. It's not terribly difficult to connect your ...

SQL Server 2008 offers two options for collecting change tracking information within the database engine, using built-in features that offer reliability and performance advantages over tracking tables ...

SQL Servers allow the import or export of database diagrams to another database. All the information related to a database is stored in the dtproperties table. Therefore, to import or export a ...

After gathering the pertinent information about my database, I verified that I could connect to the database from the local system by bringing up the setup wizard for a 64-bit ODBC data source (Figure ...

How to Synchronize Two Microsoft SQL Databases. If your business uses Microsoft SQL Server, you may want to have multiple instances of servers on multiple computers for synchronization or backup ...

Here is a list of common wait types and techniques that every DBA (or wannabe DBA) should know. While there are many more wait types than listed here, understanding these will give you a leg up when ...