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Returns information about the connections established to this instance of the database engine and the details of each connection. Returns server wide connection information for SQL Server and Azure ...

Plan for the worst and hope for the best. However, in SQL Server 2005, rebuildm.exe was removed. Unfortunately, many of us found this out the hard way – at 3am during a disaster recovery session.

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

When a SQL Server database enters recovery mode, it normally resolves itself after three important phases: analysis, redo, and undo. However, there are times when the recovery procedure is not ...

Description of the issue Below tries to run DBCC check on contained master databases as well and it fails EXECUTE [dbo]. [DatabaseIntegrityCheck] @databases = 'USER_DATABASES', @LogToTable = 'Y' SQL ...