Have you ever found yourself with the need to copy SQL Server logins from one server to another? It'll come in handy if you're setting up a failover site, building a replacement server, setting up a ...

Here is a feature that I have been waiting for since I started working with SQL Server 6.5: the ability to script the data from a table. When you deploy a SQL Server database, you often need to ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database. In part one of this article, I described a ...

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Worryingly, integrated attacks on these applications are becoming more prevalent and automated as well, meaning that businesses should brace for a surge of new activity. Over the third quarter of 2013 ...

The latest improvements to Microsoft's SQL Operations Studio (MSOS) are now available, marking the data management tool's second update since its public preview debut at November's PASS Summit. MSOS ...

As you might guess from the name, this product is a builder for SQL statements. But it's a whole lot more than that. It's also a bit different from other products in the field, so let's start by ...

Many books, blogs, and articles on using Groovy with Windows rightly point out that some of the commonly used commands in Windows are not actually executables, but are instead built-in commands. These ...

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 ...