I have a linked server and I'm having a tough time referencing it properly.<BR><BR>If I open SQL Management Studio and run a query on the server itself it works great.<BR><BR>However, I want to take ...

Is it possible to use linked services in MSSQL Server and execute queries if the Distributed Transaction Coordinator is not enabled?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Maybe this should be in the NT forum, but I thought ...

So you decided to set up log shipping in order to establish a failover server, but what's next? Log shipping only takes care of keeping a user database in sync from one server to the other. In the ...

DBAs will have to start thinking in terms of groups instead of single servers. SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) also has much better object-level stats than ever before. This is a perfectly ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have ...