Start SQL Server Management Studio Click the "Start" button. Move the mouse cursor to the "All Programs" menu, then find and click "Microsoft SQL Server" to open a list of SQL Server programs.

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

Good old FTP and flat file import will do the trick reliably and never take a day off. Here are the basic steps to automate an FTP download in Windows followed by a CSV insert into MS SQL Server.

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...

In my last article, Quick and Dirty with Open Office Base, I described my initial experiences with building a simple database application for my wife in Open Office Base, having had no prior ...

SQL continues to make inroads in the open source Big Data space this week, with Qubole open sourcing Quark for SQL virtualization, while MapR Technologies is converging SQL and JSON in the latest ...

EMC has essentially done a heart transplant from Greenplum of everything needed to run scalable SQL queries and planted it on top of the Hadoop File System. This means that you can now store ...