Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Tim Kridel is an independent analyst and freelance writer with years of experience in covering technology, telecommunications and more. As the program manager for the Naval Enterprise Networks Program ...

When working with dates and times in SQL Server, it’s common for formatting discrepancies to cause issues during query execution. To prevent errors, it’s crucial to ensure that date strings are ...

Oracle SQL Developer is a great tool for managing Oracle Databases. It has a user-friendly interface that makes it easier to handle database tasks. The software offers features to simplify workflows ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Microsoft has decided to pull back support for Transport Layer Security versions 1.0 and 1.1 in upcoming Windows rollouts. Microsoft has decided to disallow Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 ...

I recently installed Dax Studio for our company's Power BI to export data to SQL server. There is a column called "start_time" set in a time format type that needs to be exported to our SQL table in a ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...