Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

Microsoft SQL uses the instance ID, rather than the instance name, to create data directories. You may use the same value for the ID as you did for the name, though you may wish to shorten it for ...

The most important performance-tuning technique available is having the needed indexes created on the tables to ensure that the SQL Server database engine is able to get the data that it needs to ...