Developers love database programming tips, tricks, and workarounds—especially those that slash development time or boost application performance. Here's a collection of such nuggets for developing SQL ...

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 ...

OK, for some reason, I can't connect to my local SQL Server instance through localhost. Local isn't an option when connecting through Query Analyzer, either. Is there some setting that allows ...

We're doing some house cleaning at work (some servers are getting moved around in the datacenter, etc etc) and so one of the test boxes I use here at work finally got moved into the datacenter. Great, ...