The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of ...

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

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Below is a cheat sheet that can be used for configuring SQL Server audit policies to log and detect potentially malicious behavior. It also includes some TSQL cheats for viewing the current audit ...

Margaret Rouse is an award-winning technical writer and teacher known for her ability to explain complex technical subjects simply to a non-technical, business audience. Over… DBMSs are important ...

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Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced adding WITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup ...

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