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SQL Server 2008 Installation Strategies and Best Practices Part 2 of 5 Greetings, last week I initiated this blog series which focuses on best practices and installation strategies when deploying SQL ...

The PowerShell community is a treasure trove of amazing modules and scripts that you can find online and use in your day-to-day operations. It doesn't matter the platform or the purpose, there is ...

The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements extend to both performance and manageability. In a few cases, such as the Resource ...

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