I have worked with SQL Server for many years now, back to Sybase SQL Server days and there has always been confusion over Logins and Users. Even though they typically use the same name they are ...

You can give your users rights to check if reports have run or jobs are complete without granting full admin rights. Here's how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server.

I'm trying to create a new database diagram in SQL Server so that I can refer to it for relationships and that sort of thing. I opened SQL Server Enterprise Manager, created a new diagram, added ...

Microsoft Corp. will make one of its most lucrative products, a version of its SQL Server database program, available to users of the Linux operating system, a move beyond the company’s own ...

During the last few articles, we have covered the basics of working with SQL server using the Server Management Objects (SMO) and PowerShell. We have covered things such as viewing the state of ...

I'm using Sql Server 2005 Management Studio on my client machine against Sql Server 2000 databases. For some reason, when I right-click to create a new diagram, the option isnt available. I havent ...

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 ...

Microsoft and Red Hat have collaborated for more than 4 years on SQL Server and have come up with a variety of ways to better manage the server internals for higher performance. For example, the ...

AWS today announced a new database product that is clearly meant to go after Microsoft’s SQL Server and make it easier — and cheaper — for SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud. The ...

If the compromised application has elevated permissions, the attackers may activate the 'xp_cmdshell' command to run operating system (OS) commands via SQL, giving them a shell in the host.