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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEI is probably poorly written and using @@IDENTITY instead of SCOPE_IDENTITY(). If this is the case, you're basically SOL unless you can convince Lotus to fix it.

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 ...

PolyServe has released a utility for Microsoft’s SQL Server that aims to make it easier for enterprises to consolidate their database servers and cluster them for better performance and availability, ...

I have an MS SQL server on my machine, and a program that uses a database through the SQL server. Problem is, the program never bothered to tell me what the admin username and password are to the ...