Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. Many IT professionals live by the maxim that if something isn’t ...

With all the cheerleading and the steady drumbeat of new features being released to Azure, it’s easy to lose track of the many cool and valuable new features released in the on-premises version of SQL ...

Microsoft's flagship database, along with several other goodies of interest to developers, are officially available. SQL Server 2014 and the SQL Server Backup to Microsoft Azure Tool both hit their ...

Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements.

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