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How we overcame the A to Z Windows Drive-Letter limitation using Volume Mount Points  Read more...

Database Lifecycle Management aims to make the development and modification of databases more predictable. Bugs are the source of more unpredictability than anything else, purely because it is so difficult to guess how long it will take to fix them. Good testing at all stages may take some time and effort, but it greatly reduces likelihood of the wildcard factor of the bug that is first detected during the deployment process; or worse, that gets into the production release.  Read more...

Useful free and paid utilities and tools for Microsoft SQL Server - complete list of 213 Utilities  Read more...

In part 5 of this series covering Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Arshad Ali looks at performance optimization.  Read more...

In the first of a three-part series, guest bloggers from DevOpsGuys look at the real role of Ops in DevOps. Where it changes, how it changes, and why Ops has an important part to play in the brave new world of DevOps.   Read more...

Take the mystery out of sysschedules and interpret the data into a plain text format.  Read more...

Although linear regressions can get complicated, most jobs involving the plotting of a trendline are easy. Simple Linear Regression is handy for the SQL Programmer in making a prediction of a linear trend and giving a figure for the level probability for the prediction, and what is more, they are easy to do with the aggregation that is built into SQL.  Read more...

Dattatrey Sindol explains the different ways in which you can get the row counts from all the tables in a SQL Server database.  Read more...

This article will talk about preparing a runbook in Azure to schedule the report of space usage of databases in Azure environment  Read more...

In this free eBook Shawn McGehee offers advice on query tuning, cutting stored procedures, and system process design and implementation for high availability. Discover how to perform backup and restore operations using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), basic T-SQL scripts and Redgate's SQL Backup tool.  Read more...

I ran into an interesting error the other day while doing a partition switch. Partition switch failed because : column ‘xyz’...  Read more...

I just read several more horror stories that include, among other things, failed backups. I’ve said it before (at volume,...  Read more...