It used to be that finding and using a sample SQL database was quite simple. In fact, the venerable Pubs database used to be installed as part of the SQL Server installation process. Fast forward to ...

The annual PASS Summit, the industry’s largest gathering of SQL Server professionals, hosted more than 4,000 attendees in Seattle recently recently. PASS (www.pass.org) has grown to more than 300 ...

Like every version before it, Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is jam-packed with features and capabilities -- and not just the support for big data clusters that the company highlighted when it released the ...

This book aims “…to provide a comprehensive introduction to SQL Server that is friendly to beginners.” How does it fare? The book’s introduction suggests that both new and existing SQL Server users ...