(Pinal Dave) I must confess that consulting has taught me much more than what I have learned in my regular job. Freelancing comes with advantages and disadvantages. For me, I am looking at advantages and I am happy with my decision. Let us see how to fix an error related to Login Failed and Deleting

(Robert Sheldon) What does the R analytics language offer to users, and how does it fit into SQL Server 2016 and 2017? Get answers to those questions and details on Microsoft’s various R technologies.

(Dennes Torres) SQL Server 2017 brings several improvements to us. Sometimes a simple new field in a DMV can turn possible interesting new functionalities. That’s what happens with differential backup in SQL Server 2017.

(Marcin Policht) The majority of Azure SQL Database related features reach their General Availability (GA) stage relatively quickly (even when measured in the Azure hyper-accelerated terms).

(Jason Brimhall) Reporting Services (SSRS) is a tool that permits you to create and deliver feature rich reports. The reports can be delivered in various formats and can even be scheduled to be delivered at various times. I even recently wrote about creating more advanced custom schedules.

(Pinal Dave) One of my clients implemented AlwaysOn Multi-subnet listener. This is one of the message which I have heard from few other AlwaysOn availability group customers who are having multi-subnet deployment.

(Jovan Popovic) Plan regression happens when SQL Server starts using the sub-optimal SQL plan to execute some T-SQL query. Usually you will see that some T-SQL query is executing really fast, but then it gets slower without any obvious reason. In this post you will see how can plan regression happen

(Vikas Rana) Recently Sravani and I delivered session on SQL SERVER Transactional and Merge Replication and covered following topics:

(Denny Cherry) One of my clients recently had the need to upload tens of terabytes of data into Azure Blob Storage. This gave us the perfect opportunity to use the Azure Import Export service to get these several terabytes of data into Azure by using the Azure Import/Export Service.

(Tim Radney) Over the past year, I have presented many sessions on Azure SQL Database as well as authoring numerous articles and blogs. I’m often asked if database maintenance is still an important factor when using Azure SQL Database. Yes – tasks such as index maintenance, statistics updates, and c