The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 3
In this article I will settle down a little bit and share with you tools that I have used as part of the data governance trade.
2008-01-31
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Revenge of the BLOB
Working with large images or other BLOB data can be a challenge for many DBAs. Andrew Sears brings us some code that can help you extract some of that data out of BLOBs and get it back into a more easy-to-work-with format.
2008-01-30
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Designing High Performance Stored Procedures
Stored procedures can be an effective way to handle conflicting needs, but it's not always so obvious how to write them so they both perform well and scale.
2008-01-30 (first published: 2007-02-05)
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Featured Blog: SQL Server 2008: Partition-level lock escalation details and examples
Paul Randal of SQLskills takes a look at lock escalation in SQL Server 2008
2008-01-30
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Object Dependencies in SQL Server
In this video, Randy Dyess shows you how important SQL Server dependencies are and some of the faults with SQL Server 2005 with these. For example, SQL Server will allow you to create a stored procedure that points to a table that doesn't exist. He also shows you how this problem has been corrected in SQL Server 2008.
2008-01-30
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Importance of UPSERT
A simple UPSERT can reduce reads on tables. This in turn will increase the performance of a DB.
2008-01-29
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