It's the Bits
A woman sues Best Buy for $54million. That's absurd, but her laptop is worth more than the hardware.
2008-03-02
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Articles
Monitoring and Recording DDL changes on SQL 2005 (NARC)
Auditing activities on your database servers becomes more important all the time. But ensuring that schema changes do not occur without your knowledge may be more important for a stable system. James Greaves brings us a great technique using DDL triggers for doing this.
2008-02-29
7,491 reads
Practical Methods: Naming Conventions
Everyone should establish some sort of naming convention for their SQL Server platform. It helps to ensure that developers and DBAs can easily find objects and communicate with one another. New author Michael Lato brings us the start of a series on organizing your SQL Server code with an article on naming conventions.
2008-02-29 (first published: 2007-03-07)
15,076 reads
Check List for Performance Optimisation in SQL Server Analysis Service 2005
This article is a step-by-step checklist to help ensure that you are obtaining the maximum performance possible from SQL Server Analysis Services.
2008-02-29
2,565 reads
Enabling Drillthrough in Analysis Services 2005
Discover the new Analysis Services 2005 drillthrough architecture. See how to set up drillthrough in Analysis Services 2005 and get guidance on migrating drillthrough settings from Analysis Services 2000 databases.
2008-02-29
1,461 reads
My Projects Have Never Failed
As a SQL Server DBA or developer, how do you measure the success of your projects? What about your users? Here is an interesting look by Janet Wong at a few of her projects and how their success was perceived. See if any of your experiences are similar.
2008-02-28 (first published: 2007-04-30)
8,370 reads
The Cost of Function Use In A Where Clause
Discusses Index Selection impact when functions are wrapped around WHERE clause filtering columns
2008-02-28
16,009 reads
Featured Blog: iFTS Transparency – Viewing the words in the index
This next post on Full Text search from MVP Simon Sabin examines how you can examine the details of what your indexes contain.
2008-02-28
1,620 reads
Locking Your Disk
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know.
2008-02-28
34 reads
Locking Your Disk
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know.
2008-02-28
36 reads
Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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Backup to Immutable Storage
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