The PASS Summit is being held in Seattle on November 18-21, 2008. Read about a few of the reasons that you might want to ask your boss if you can go.
2008-08-13 (first published: 2008-05-01)
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What do you do when work is too frustrating. Steve Jones talks about finding a way to release stress and frustration.
2008-08-13
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What do you do when work is too frustrating. Steve Jones talks about finding a way to release stress and frustration.
2008-08-13
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What do you do when work is too frustrating. Steve Jones talks about finding a way to release stress and frustration.
2008-08-13
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This article describes the use of BI in Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment
2008-08-13
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Far too often, people who are not trained database administrators somehow end up responsible for a database. They lack the proper training and knowledge to maintain their database, and problems begin to develop. Here’s a primer for all those involuntary DBAs who need a crash course in database maintenance best practices.
2008-08-13
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Learn how you can add a new database to your instance if you receive the MDF and LDF files from another source. MVP Brian Knight covers this very useful technique that is used for moving databases to new instances, servers, or even recovering from an disaster.
2008-08-12
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SQL Server trainer and expert DBA, Andy Warren, thinks that everyone should have a philosophy about security. He starts this installment in looking about how to assign administrative privileges.
2008-08-12
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This paper presents an approach to the definition of function points within database-centric business information systems, the process of counting function points, .
2008-08-12
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Statistics update date is stored as metadata on the SQL instance, but after a great deal of research against the system tables and DMVs I realized that this information is not readily exposed to the DBA via any other method than the STATS_DATE() function or the SQL Server Management Studio graphical user interface (GUI).
2008-08-12
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By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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