SQL Server Magazine highlighted this among other great free tools and this one caught my eye. The tool used to be called SQLIOStress and has been upgraded to more accurately reflect I/O patterns of ...

IKM assessments are what they sound like. Assessments of employee knowledge and skills used prior to hiring, during training, and at the end of the job. There are 30 – 50 multiple-choice questions, ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

The SQL Developer unit testing framework involves a set of sequential steps for each test case. The steps are as follows, including the user input for before the step is run and the framework ...

The SQL Server team is unleashing the first widespread test builds of the next version of Microsoft's database, a k a ""="">). Earlier this year, Microsoft officials said to watch for a Community ...

Test-Drive SQL Server Data Services Microsoft readies its new "cloud database" by hosting beta versions of REST and SOAP protocols for performing CRUD operations on clustered, customized SQL Server ...

Microsoft made available for download on September 20 a Customer Technology Preview (CTP) test build of a first update to its SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its database. Microsoft released to ...