Configuring SQL Server memory settings
Learn about SQL Server memory needs and settings including RAM amounts, how to enable AWE, maximum server memory and the differences of 32- and 64-bit platforms.
2008-03-03
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Articles
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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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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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
32 reads
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
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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)
15,090 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
16,014 reads
Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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