With over two decades of IT experience, Microsoft data platform MVP Thomas LaRock has seen nearly every SQL Server troubleshooting nightmare under the sun. In an upcoming session called "The Top 5 ...

Microsoft announced this week that it is having problems with ISO releases of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2. Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2012 was released last month. However, there's a problem ...

In SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you can see the SQL Server database state. Alternatively, you can use T-SQL commands to verify your database status. You can use the DATABASEPROPERTYEX function ...

All the information in SQL Server database is stored in 8 KB-sized pages. If any page gets corrupted, server fails to read the data in the database and displays different errors. Some common errors ...

When trying to install SolidWorks on a Windows computer, you may encounter an issue when the installation is trying to install Microsoft SQL Server. So, the installation works fine until it reaches ...

LUMIGENT TECHNOLOGIES ON Monday plans to release Log Explorer Version 3.0, which allows users to identify causes of problems in Microsoft SQL Server databases and recover data. The product uses the ...

I could do the temporary staging area as a test step, with a held list of problem records to them exclude in the where conditions of all later updates/insert. I almost bet the execution time would be ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...