This 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).
This 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).
In 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.
If 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.
Starting 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.
If 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.
If 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.
If you’ve installed SQL Server on your Ubuntu machine, you’ll need some sort of tool to connect to it.
Installing the sqlcmd and bcp utilities is good place to start.
In this article, I show you how to install SQL Server on a Windows machine (screenshots included).
In this case I used the installation wizard to install SQL Server 2019 onto a Windows 10 machine, using the Basic installation option, which uses the default configuration.
SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) is a graphical tool that you can use to administer SQL Server.
SSMS used to be bundled with SQL Server, but that is no longer the case. You must now install it separately.
This article shows you how to install SSMS (including screenshots).
Note that SSMS is only available for Windows machines. If you’re using a non-Windows machine (such as Mac or Linux), try Azure Data Studio or perhaps DBeaver.
Also note that Azure Data Studio is now included when you install SSMS (starting with SSMS 18.7).