What's a DBA? - An Overview
Ever wonder what a DBA does? Ever had someone ask you what your job entails? Here's an overview of what a DBA does. Reader feedback will be used to update this article over time.
2001-08-24
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Articles
The Self-Taught DBA
Are you thinking of becoming a master DBA? If so, find out how you can in this article.
2001-08-24
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An Interview with Louis Davidson
Want to learn more about some of your favorite authors. Check out this interview with Louis Davidson, author of Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design.
2001-08-23
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Installation Problems in SQL Server 7.0
This article examines some of the common issues that may occur when installing SQL Server 7.0
2001-08-23
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Aggregating a Set of Hierachical Records
A great deal of data in any RDBMS is hierarchial. This article presents a technique for aggregating this data.
2001-08-22
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Review: Log Explorer 2.1
Lumigent has updated their transaction log analysis tool to include a number of features that every DBA will find handy. Read this review of a great new product.
2001-08-22
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Strategies for Backing Up and Restoring Transactional Replication
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 allows you to restore transactional replication databases without reinitializing subscriptions or disabling and reconfiguring publishing and distribution. You can set up replication to work with log shipping, enabling you to use a warm standby server without reconfiguring replication.
2001-08-21
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Design Oversight - Preliminary Review
We all know what the ideal application design environment is for building a database back-end: an experienced DBA takes inputs from end users and developers and creates the database design in order to support the application being developed. But in reality, we don't get the opportunity to do application design like this very often. This article covers how to quickly find and fix problems in a design.
2001-08-20
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2001-08-20
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Recover Those Packages!
Ever need to recover a single package? Don't have local backups? Read this!!!
2001-08-16
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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