Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

My question is about migrating data from one server to the other. My inclination is to stop SQL Server services, copy the database and log files over to the new server, and then attach the database to ...

Currently I have a live SQL server running as the backbone of a production website we will be using.<BR><BR>We need a copy of this database to move over to another server without interruption.

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...