Simply put, a Microsoft SQL Server database is a collection of objects that hold andmanipulate data. A typical SQL Server instance has only a handful of databases, but it’s notunusual for a single instance to contain several dozen databases. The technical limit for oneSQL Server instance is 32,767 databases. But practically speaking, this limit would neverbe reached. To elaborate a bit, you can think of a SQL Server database as having the following propertiesand features 2008-SQLServerInternals PDF Link

SQL Server 2008 R2, like its predecessors, is more than a database engine. It is acollection of components that you can implement either separately or as a groupto form a scalable data platform. In broad terms, this data platform consists oftwo types of components—those that help you manage data and those that helpyou deliver business intelligence (BI). Accordingly, we have divided this book intotwo parts to focus on the new capabilities for each of these areas. Link to PDF

Azure SQL for beginners is a series to help bring SQL Server professionals to Azure SQL (Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server in Azure VM). In this video, you’ll get an overview of how (and why) the series is structured. For the full Azure SQL Fundamentals learning path on Microsoft Learn visit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtr6eRVZQ8I&list=PLlrxD0HtieHi5c9-i_Dnxw9vxBY-TqaeN

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The growing volume, velocity, diversity, and locations of enterprise data make it increasingly challenging to discover, connect to, move, transform, integrate, and analyze it all. In fact, with the compound annual growth rate of data from 2013 to 2020 estimated at 41 percent1, this can be termed a data explosion. This is the result of more and more devices combined with a new hunger from businesses for more data to better understand and predict customer needs to make smarter decisions with data. PDF LInk