You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

When you encounter the “Network-related or instance-specific error” in SQL Server, it usually happens when trying to connect to a database, and the connection ...

Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through an SQL Server instance. "The attackers initially exploited a SQL ...

When connecting to SQL Server, users frequently encounter the error message “SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 — Error Locating Server or Instance Specified ...

Customers who are running their SQL Server workloads using SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and Azure SQL Managed Instance are now eligible for new high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. We are excited to announce general availability of the link feature for Managed Instance for SQL Server 2022–the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet.

One integration that proved very popular in the preview version of SQL Server 2022 was using Azure SQL Managed Instance for DR (disaster recovery), which is now very simple to set up using a ...

A new benefit for SQL Server 2022 includes the ability to use an Azure SQL Managed Instance for disaster recovery at the cost of compute and storage. For example, an 8-core general-purpose Managed ...

So to rename the database, you need to follow one of the methods as discussed below. First of all, we have to create a database which needs to be renamed. Select any database in your SQL Server ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose is "a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance," Snodgrass explained ...