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This article will walk you through the essentials of MySQL, shedding light on the intricacies of column types, and explore scenarios where altering column types becomes a necessity, exemplified through the lens of dbForge Studio for MySQL.

Instant file initialization (IFI) is a feature in SQL Server that can help the users to save time and resources when creating, expanding, and recovering databases. In this article, we’ll examine the benefits of instant file initialization along with potential drawbacks, and learn how to enable and disable this feature.

Let us examine the common use case of comparing and synchronizing databases that involve checking if the specific database exists in SQL Server.

Read on to explore multiple methods to get the version of the connected Oracle database using different commands, tools, utilities, and command-line operations.

This article contains a comprehensive guide on backing up and restoring data and schema using a command-line tool and a user-friendly GUI tool — dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL. Here, you will discover carefully selected theoretical material designed to broaden your knowledge on the subject, complemented by practical examples to provide you with a hands-on learning experience.

In this article, we’ll connect to PostgreSQL using dotConnect for PostgreSQL  which is high performance and enhanced data provider for PostgreSQL that is built on top of ADO.NET and can work on both connected and disconnected modes.

Discover how to populate a database with data by means of Data Generator for SQL Server, and search for database data and objects with the free dbForge Search tool. I will use dbForge Studio for SQL Server to implement charts for my examples, and dbForge Data Pump to import and export data.

The preconditions for easy and versatile import and export are rather simple. First, you need to have quite a few data formats to deal with, a dozen or so. Second, you need to tailor each operation to your needs with a selection of flexible settings. Third, you most certainly wouldn't mind automating your recurring tasks.

In this article, we will examine the process of populating the employee database with dummy data, whose schema we designed in the previous...

Migrating data from MySQL to Oracle can be a wearisome task with a significant amount of manual effort. It can be streamlined with the assistance of two Devart products: dbForge Studio for Oracle and the ODBC driver for MySQL.