SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

Discover how to limit the size of the trace file in SQL Server Profiler and how to specify whether the file rolls over when it reaches maximum size. [!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Managed Instance] ...

@sql: input sql query representing input dataset. @rscript: R script to be executed in the current context. eg: library (lubridate) ; .tbinput %>% mutate (CurrentDate = today ()) The input dataset is ...

Last week at work I was given a folder of 1,500 scripts – can you imagine having to open each file in Management Studio to be able to execute it?

Good old FTP and flat file import will do the trick reliably and never take a day off. Here are the basic steps to automate an FTP download in Windows followed by a CSV insert into MS SQL Server.