The Data Warehousing Choice
What is your choice for data warehousing? Is it a cloud platform? Which one is attractive to you?
What is your choice for data warehousing? Is it a cloud platform? Which one is attractive to you?
Misusing MAXDOP can silently kill performance across your SQL Server. In this deep dive, we uncover how one bad query caused CPU meltdown, run real-world tests, and show how tuning—not parallelism—often holds the true fix.
There are multiple reasons for no full backup: corrupted backups, taking too much time to restore, etc. In this post, I want to show an alternative for these cases, an ace up one’s sleeve, that you can use to recover data.
There is something magical about SQLBits. Whether it is the technical sessions, the sense of community and fun, or the relentless commitment to learning about the latest innovation, this event continues to serve as a pulse check for where data is today and where it’s going tomorrow. This year’s SQLBits at the ExCel in London […]
Learn about a few different options for migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL.
Steve wonders if it is worth it to use multiple monitoring systems for a database.
Computer network security is important, and it's something we ought to be more concerned with as data professionals.
This level takes a deeper look at how log fragmentation can affect the performance of operations that need to read the log, such as log backups, or the crash recovery process.
A DBA may consider switching a database to the BULK_LOGGED recovery model in the short term during, for example, bulk load operations. When a database is operating in the BULK_LOGGED model these, and a few other operations such as index rebuilds, can be minimally logged and will therefore use much less space in the log
This level will examine the most common problems and forms of mismanagement that lead to excessive growth of the transaction log.
By Steve Jones
During a demo of Redgate Monitor Enterprise to a customer, they asked about how...
By Steve Jones
SQL Bits 2025 was amazing, as always. It’s been my favorite conference to attend,...
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When does Microsoft recommend using a heap as a table structure (no clustered index)?
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