SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is a Microsoft Visual Studio environment for creating business intelligence solutions. SSDT features the Report Designer authoring environment, where you can open, modify, preview, save, and deploy Reporting Services paginated report definitions, shared data sources, shared datasets, and report parts. SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is not included with SQL... » read more
From portal.azure.com … Go to “Networking” section of VM. Add Inbound port rule … Port: xxxxx Protocol: Any Note: There maybe firewall port that needs to be open as well. For this, go to “Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security” to add new inbound rule for port xxxxx.
From portal.azure.com … Go to “Networking” section of VM. Add Inbound port rule … Port: 1433 Protocol: Any Check List: SQL Server Properties -> Connections -> “Allow remote connections to this server” is checked SQL Server Network Configuration -> TCP/IP is enabled and set to port 1433 Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security -> Inbound... » read more
Note: Make sure email profile and account are setup on the SQL Server first. To enable SQL Server Agent job email notification go to … SQL Server Agent -> Properties -> Alert System -> Mail session -> Enable mail profile
SQL Server Mail Account Setup Server name: smtp.gmail.com Port number: 587 This server requires a secure connection (SSL): Checked Basic Authentication: enter your username and password Google Email Make sure “Allow less secure apps” is set to ON Note: for Google Admin users go to Gmail -> Security -> Less Secure Apps Run the following... » read more
Error: OLE DB provider “SQLNCLI11” for linked server “xxxxx” returned message “Unspecified error”. Msg 40515, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Reference to database and/or server name in ‘xxxxx.sys.sp_tables_info_90_rowset_64’ is not supported in this version of SQL Server. Fix: Create linked server to SQL Azure Database using script. Sources: http://yasqlsb.blogspot.com/2014/07/sql-azure-linked-servers.html
An index is a copy of information from a table that speeds up retrieval of rows from the table or view. Two main characteristics of an index are: Smaller than a table – this allows SQL Server to search the index more quickly, so when a query hits a particular column in our table and if... » read more
Yes, I spelled that correctly. NUL not NULL. NUL is basically a location you can send a backup to. In fact, one of the awesome bonuses of this location is that your backup will take up exactly 0 bytes of space. You got it, absolutely none! Now before you get too excited (and some of you did didn’t... » read more
Even if you’re not writing to different physical drives, you can get faster backups with Microsoft SQL Server when you back up to multiple files. Your exact numbers are going to vary based on your server. Test round 1:Backing up to multiple files on one volume In this test, the backup files were on one... » read more