Notes on the create script for server principals: I have included a hashed version of the password and the sid. This means that when run on another server the password and the sid will remain the same ...

Become familiar with SQL Server unit test scripts. Learn about pre-test, test, and post-test scripts and the common scripts TestInitialize and TestCleanup. Each SQL Server unit test contains a single ...

We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The mssql-scripter tool enables developers, DBAs, and sysadmins to generate CREATE and INSERT T ...

Learn how to use a data modeling tool to generate SQL scripts from a data model, and what are the benefits and challenges of this approach.

Microsoft recently updated its All-In-One Script Framework, which features SQL Server (and other) scripts designed to address common problems reported by users in forums, support incidents and online ...

The customer then mitigated the active ransomware attack which started by brute-forcing a weak password in SQL Server and then executing shell scripts. A securely configured SQL Server behind a ...

but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server). If this was easy, we'd just run: ...

To better structure the code samples, I placed each application in its own separate directory, and I placed the SQL Server script files for the database in their own separate directory. Then, I rolled ...

At its Ignite conference in Orlando today, Microsoft released a new version of its core relational database, SQL Server. The new version, SQL Server 2019, takes important capabilities in its ...