In SQL server, you can tell server-instance-B about server-instance-A (ie. separate processes on the same server), and specify a way to map logins. This is useful when you're 'side-integrating' with a ...

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

When using linked servers, I believe, all processing occurs on the calling server. For processing to occur on the linked server you would use OpenQuery.

[1] For HDFS and Azure Blob Storage only(For SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016 only). [2] For tail of the log only (For SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016 only). [3] SQL Server Enterprise edition only.

Getting Started dbatools is PowerShell module that you may think of like a command-line SQL Server Management Studio. The project initially started out as just Start-SqlMigration.ps1, but has now ...