Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job.

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

Few solutions lack a database component, and since SQL Server on-premises and Azure SQL Database in the cloud are among the most capable and popular options for serious developers, we wanted to show ...

A more recent feature in Dropbase is a new tool called Dropmail, which enables users to email a .csv file to turn it into a SQL database.

The downside of moving more of your database logic into stored procedures is that your logic is coupled that much more tightly to the database. Stored procedures can mutate from a performance ...

Every professional programmer (and DBA) should have a library of books on SQL fundamentals. There are many SQL titles to choose from, and a lot of them are very good. But this month's column will ...

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 ...