The advantage of using one connection for multiple statements is that it reduces the overhead of establishing multiple connections, while allowing multiple statements to access the database. The ...

It was about 25 years ago that I first started working in system development. My first assignment was to simply create ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

i have this problem with the sql server ver 6.5 ( i know i need to upgrade but $$ is not so kind to me at the moment :0)). how to increase the Log size of a database (no.. not by expanding the ...

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

The introduction of increased transactional capability into non-relational databases makes sense-in the same way that providing SQL layers on top of Hadoop and many other non-relational stores makes ...

Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but ...

Microsoft's Azure SQL Database is getting an expanded range of performance tiers, upping the Standard tier maximum DTUs to ...