SQL Server used to be available on Windows machines only. If you didn’t have Windows, you didn’t install SQL Server.
Now, SQL Server is available on Windows, Linux, and even Mac (via Docker containers).
This obviously means that an article titled “how to install SQL Server” is not as simple as it used to be!
Continue readingHere, I demonstrate how to add a Database Mail account to an existing Database Mail profile in SQL Server using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) graphical user interface.
If you want to see how to do it using T-SQL, see Add a Database Mail Account to a Profile (T-SQL).
Continue readingThis article demonstrates how to create a Database Mail account in SQL Server using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) graphical user interface.
If you want to see how to do it using T-SQL, see How to Create a Database Mail Account in SQL Server (T-SQL).
Continue readingThis article explains how to create a Database Mail profile in SQL Server using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) graphical user interface.
If you want to see how to do it using T-SQL, see How to Create a Database Mail Profile in SQL Server (T-SQL).
Continue readingThis article shows you how to setup Database Mail for the first time on a new SQL Server installation.
As with many things SQL Server, you can configure Database Mail via the SSMS GUI, or you can do it using T-SQL code.
This article covers the SSMS GUI option. If you’re interested in the T-SQL option, see How to Send Email in SQL Server (T-SQL).
Continue readingIn SQL Server, you can use the ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION to merge two partitions into one partition.
To do this, use the MERGE RANGE argument, while providing the boundary value of the partition to drop.
This operation drops the partition and merges any values that exist in the partition into a remaining partition.
Continue readingIf you have a partitioned table or index in SQL Server, but you need more partitions, you can add a partition to the partition function using the ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION statement with the SPLIT RANGE argument.
When you do this, you split an existing partition into two.
Continue readingStarting from SQL Server 2017, you can now install SQL Server on Linux.
More specifically, you an install it on Ubuntu, Red Hat (RHEL), and SUSE.
Below are instructions for installing SQL Server on each of these Linux distributions.
Continue readingIf you’ve installed SQL Server on your Red Hat machine, you’ll need some tools to connect to it and run queries, etc.
The sqlcmd and bcp utilities are a couple of good options for helping you perform the most common tasks.
Continue readingIf you’ve installed SQL Server on your SUSE machine, you’ll need some tools to connect to it and run queries, etc.
The sqlcmd and bcp utilities are good options for performing the most common tasks.
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