Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

The error ‘NT AUTHORITY/LOCAL SERVICE cannot be found‘ is a SQL server data error that typically occurs with Visual Studio or when performing certain tasks in ...

Dynamic management views and functions return server state information that can be used to monitor the health of a server instance, diagnose problems, and tune performance. Dynamic management views ...

For more info, see Populate Full-Text Indexes. Note: After you exit the Full-Text Index Properties dialog box, any newly created schedule is associated with a SQL Server Agent job (Start Incremental ...

Query result Fixed an issue introduced in SQL Server Management Studio 18.3.1, where grids would be drawn slightly too narrow and show “…” at the end of the longest string in every column. SQL ...