Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The SQL specification defines four transaction isolation levels, although a fifth transaction ...

Creating a full database backup in SQL Server is essential for preserving your data and ensuring you have a reliable restore point in case of system failure, corruption, or migration. A full backup ...

Creating a [single database](single-database-overview.md) is the quickest and simplest option for creating a database in Azure SQL Database. This quickstart shows you ...

It's important to plan for security before you configure your replication topology. This tutorial shows you how to better secure a replication topology. It also shows you how to configure distribution ...

MySQL is one of the world’s most widely used database management systems. It is easy to install and use and is usually free. Here’s how to use it. In our previous post, we took you through the basic ...

In a SQL Server, two types of indexes exist; Clustered and non-clustered indexes. Both clustered indexes and non-clustered indexes have the same physical structure. Moreover, both of them are stored ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server up and running.