In today’s competitive job market, securing a role in database management is difficult. SQL (Structured Query Language) remains a fundamental skill for database administrators, software developers, ...

Based on the expertise of Intelligent Converters specialists gained from a variety of migration projects, this whitepaper reveals best practices, key bottlenecks, and some tips and tricks for ...

Conditional access and device compliance can require that managed devices meet standards before they can connect to the VPN. VPN conditional access allows you to restrict the VPN connections to ...

This article discusses the “DROP IF EXISTS” statement available in SQL Server 2016 and later versions. “IF EXITS” is the latest optional clause added in the existing DROP statement in SQL Server 2016 ...

Logical operators OR and AND as well as conditional functions (COALESCE, LEAST, GREATEST, etc.) cannot be folded to NULL if one of their children is NULL as is the case for most of the functions.

Take advantage of the NULL Object pattern to avoid writing too much boilerplate code in your application when checking for null values A null object is one that doesn’t have any referenced value. The ...

SQL 2016 has a number of major enhancements which will help whether or not you are implementing on-prem, in Azure or in a hybrid model. Last week Microsoft released the preview of SQL Server 2016 ...