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 ...

I'm trying to copy a database from one server (SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition) to another (SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition) to make sure the second is suitable as a backend to some terrifying ...

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 ...