This article describes how to configure SQL Server Agent to use Database Mail to send notification and alerts in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio. The user creating the profiles ...

This article describes how to configure an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine to listen on a specific fixed port by using SQL Server Configuration Manager. If enabled, the default instance of ...

Mirroring in Fabric is an enterprise, cloud-based, zero-ETL, SaaS technology. In this section, you learn how to create a mirrored SQL Server database, which creates a read-only, continuously ...

This article describes how to create a SQL Server Always On availability group (AG) for high availability on Linux. There are two configuration types for AGs. A high availability configuration uses a ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...

As of today, July 14, 2026, SQL Server 2016 has reached end of support. For the past decade, SQL Server 2016 has helped organizations run mission-critical applications and support the data needs of ...

I've installed Horizon View, VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product, dozens of times over the past decade. With each release, for the most part, the installation process gets easier and ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. Many IT professionals live by the maxim that if something isn’t ...