SQL Server 2008 SP3 Express, a free edition of Microsoft's database management system, can be downloaded here. Microsoft also released a Feature Pack for SQL Server 2008 SP3.

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

During the last few articles, we have covered the basics of working with SQL server using the Server Management Objects (SMO) and PowerShell. We have covered things such as viewing the state of ...