When I (along with many other people) had a lot of trouble trying to install SQL Server Management Studio in an attempt to switch from the SQL Server 2008 R2 evaluation to the free Express version, I ...

In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...

You can encrypt all incoming connections to SQL Server or enable encryption for just a specific set of clients. For either of these scenarios, you first have to ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

$jdbc_connectionstring="jdbc:sqlserver://%SQL_SERVER%.test.closebrothers.com:60896;databaseName=%DATABASE%;integratedSecurity=true;" $jtds_connectionstring="jdbc ...

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment. My toolbox typically includes the tools that ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 minutes ...