A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases.

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SQL injection is widely known and, because so much data in databases is sensitive, can be extraordinarily high-impact. Why do developers keep writing such bugs?

Read SQL Server 101 and learn more about SQL Server’s architecture and management basics. This useful guide also covers working with the SQL Server optimizer and execution plans. Learn more.

Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA.

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

Native support for JSON in the upcoming SQL Server 2016 was buried among the many goodies announced earlier this month for the flagship RDBMS, but it's the feature most requested by data developers, ...