As the name implies, the Vulnerability Assessment fea­ture scans Azure SQL databases for a wide variety of security issues, system misconfigurations, superfluous permissions, unsecured data, firewall ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

SQL Server Drill Down SQL Server Drill Down explores all aspects of Microsoft SQL Server and related applications, with a particular emphasis on issues of interest to SQL Server data professionals.

If you have accidently deleted data from database tables in MS SQL Server, you can restore the deleted data (tables) using Log Sequence Number (LSN). But for this, you need the transaction backup file ...

Code Focused Deleting All Data from a SQL Server Database There are times as a developer that you will want to be able to delete all the data from a database as efficiently as possible. Unfortunately, ...

So with this early preview, officially listed as Microsoft SQL Server v.Next (CTP1.1) what do you get? For this early release, functionality is limited to the core data­base engine.

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.