The PowerShell community is a treasure trove of amazing modules and scripts that you can find online and use in your day-to-day operations. It doesn't matter the platform or the purpose, there is ...

SQL Server 2008 Installation Strategies and Best Practices Part 2 of 5 Greetings, last week I initiated this blog series which focuses on best practices and installation strategies when deploying SQL ...

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. SQL injection attacks have been around for more than 10 years. Database security experts know they ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. LINQ to SQL is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) ...

Many considerations go into evaluating whether it is time to implement an upgrade to a new version of SQL Server. You need to think about socket vs. core licensing ...