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 ...

Open Run by Win + R, type Services.msc, and click on Ok. Now, look for the SQL Server (instance name or db name) service, right-click on it, and click on Properties from the context menu.

6. Click New Query in SQL Server Management Studio and type select @@servername to verify everything is correct and you have successfully changed the sql server name.

Microsoft announced this week that it is having problems with ISO releases of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2.

We've got a strange problem here and I'm hoping someone has some kind of idea as to what could be causing it.We've got a stored procedure in Sql Server 2005. It's not terribly complicated but it's ...