Overview New and recently updated articles SQL Server Guides Always On Availability Groups Troubleshooting and Monitoring Guide Index design Memory Management Architecture Reading pages Writing pages Pages and Extents Architecture Post-migration Validation and Optimization Query Processing Architecture Thread and Task Architecture Transaction Log Architecture and Management Transaction Locking and Row Versioning Guide Backup and restore Blob Collations Configuration Manager Cursors Data collection Data compression Data tier applications Database mail Databases Develop Clients CLR integration Extended stored procedures programming Extended stored procedures reference Express Localdb error messages Express Localdb instance APIs Native client Server management objects (SMO) SQLXML WMI Provider (Windows Management Instrumentation) WMI provider configuration WMI provider configuration classes WMI provider server events Errors and events Event classes Extended events Graphs Hierarchical Data Import and export In-memory OLTP Indexes JSON Linked servers Maintenance plans Manage Database Lifecycle Management Administer Multiple Servers Using Central Management Servers Partitions Performance Policy-based management PolyBase Replication Resource Governor Scripting Search Security Sequence numbers Service Broker Showplan Operators Spatial SQL Trace Statistics Stored procedures Synonyms System catalog views System compatibility views System dynamic management views System functions System information schema views System stored procedures System tables System views Tables Track changes Triggers User-defined functions Views xml Tutorials Getting Started with the Database Engine Lesson 1: Connecting to the Database Engine Lesson 2: Connecting from Another Computer SQL Server Backup and Restore to Azure Blob Storage Service Signing Stored Procedures with a Certificate Ownership Chains and Context Switching Using the Microsoft Azure Blob storage service with SQL Server 2016 databases Lesson 1: Create a stored access policy and a shared access signature on an Azure container Lesson 2: Create a SQL Server credential using a shared access signature Lesson 3: Database backup to URL Lesson 4: Restore database to virtual machine from URL Lesson 5: Backup database using file-snapshot backup Lesson 6: Generate activity and backup log using file-snapshot backup Lesson 7: Restore a database to a point in time Lesson 8. Restore as new database from log backup Lesson 9: Manage backup sets and file-snapshot backups