Welcome to this new series -- in this column, I hope to impart some quick, short tips that will help you make quick work of managing and administering your SQL Server databases. First up is an ...

Manage and monitor backed up SQL Server databases This article describes common tasks for managing and monitoring SQL Server databases that are running on an Azure virtual machine (VM) and that are ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server] [!INCLUDEssCurrent] gives you the option of recovering a database despite detected errors. An important new error-detection mechanism is the optional creation of a backup ...