Quickstart: Connect SQL Server machines to Azure Arc
Get started with Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server to manage and govern your Windows and Linux SQL Server instances hosted across on-premises, edge, and multicloud environments.
2023-09-06
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Change the Instance Collation by Rebuilding Databases in SQL Server 2017
As a part of my DBA activities, I do a lot of SQL Server installations every week. Most of the time, I install the instance with the default collation. A collation is a configuration setting in SQL Server that determines how the database engine should read the data. SQL Server has huge list of collations […]
2022-12-26 (first published: 2020-08-03)
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SQL Server 2012 does not come up after service pack upgrade SP4
A failed SQL Server Service Pack upgrade is fixed with a trace flag.
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