If you don’t have a backup of your MS SQL database, then follow the below ways to recover deleted data. Transaction log files record each change made to the ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Explore how SQL Server 2025 reshapes the modern data platform with AI-ready capabilities, developer-first enhancements, hybrid modernisation and practical upgrade readiness guidance. For many years, ...

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Full disclosure: I am a co-author of an upcoming book on SQL Server 2012, and I do a lot of work with Microsoft. Why would a new version of SQL Server be a big deal for this blog? As a mainstream ...

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...

Microsoft released to manufacturing the latest version of its SQL Server database, SQL Server 2014, on March 18. SQL Server 2014 will be available to customers as of April 1. The newest version of SQL ...

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