Auditing an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine or an individual database involves tracking and logging events that occur on the Database Engine. SQL Server audit lets you create server audits, ...

This feature will be removed in a future version of SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. For high availability ...

If you're considering moving your on-premises SQL Server databases to the Microsoft Azure cloud, you need to decide which of the different cloud options works best for you. You might not realize it to ...

Regardless of the size of your organization, there's always a wide variety of items to keep track of in database systems like SQL Server -- user logins, data access, security protections and more.

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 ...

This unit takes a closer look at the CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT (CETAS) command and the benefits it provides. CETAS supports Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, S3-compatible object ...

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SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...