As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, announced SQL virtual database 1.3, the latest release for this solution that enables backup files to look and act just ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

Example of a SQL Server Migration-Based deployment that deploys to an Azure SQL Database. Which I mention in a blog post called 'Introducing the dbops PowerShell module for Azure DevOps deployments'.

Microsoft is also taking steps to enable code-far programming designs, for example, using Microsoft Access 2013 to build a local front-end running against a back end in the cloud, rather than in a ...