In announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately. A Copilot for the tool that helps users manage, ...

How to Start SQL in Single-User Mode. Organizations can use SQL Server to reduce downtime, manage and secure databases, and discover patterns in mission-critical information to improve business ...

Figure 2. The SQL Server Management Studio interface. After gathering the pertinent information about my database, I verified that I could connect to the database from the local system by bringing up ...

To do this, I went to the SQL Server Configuration Manager, expanded the SQL Server Network Configuration, selected Protocols for SQLEXPRESS, right-clicked TCP/IP and selected Enable (Figure 5).

Since the Configuration Manager was launched directly from the installer, the server and instance names should already be populated for you. Just click the Connect button to get started.

Figure 1. Using SQL Server Configuration Manager to configure FileStream Access. The second method of enabling FileStream is by using the stored procedure "sp_configure". This stored procedure ...

Server Manager displays role specific information. One of the really cool things that you can do with the Server Manager is to configure role-specific performance alerts.