Creating a SQL Code Snippet in SQL Prompt and SSMS
Phil Factor's "getting started" guide for turning all your trusted and most frequently used queries into SQL code snippets.
2020-11-12
Articles
Bridging the divide between Data Management and DevOps
The speed, flexibility and collaboration of DevOps can be difficult to achieve against the rigid schemas, manual processes, and silos in the world of data management. Join Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Grant Fritchey to discover the key strategies you can implement to bridge the divide between data management and DevOps in your organization.
2020-11-11
Free eBook: Understanding SQL Server Concurrency
When you can’t get to your data because another application has it locked, a thorough knowledge of SQL Server concurrency will give you the confidence to decide what to do.
2020-11-11 (first published: 2013-07-17)
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SQL Server Clustered Index Fragmentation on GUID Columns
In this article we take a look at using GUID columns in your SQL Server database tables and the impact GUID columns may have on indexing.
2020-11-11
Block user objects from being created in a master database
Introduction The Master database. Just in case that you are not familiar with this database, the Master database is used in SQL Server to store all the system information, instance-level settings, logon information, database file locations, etc. SQL Server can't run without access to a fully functional master database. It's highly recommended not to use […]
2020-11-10
4,099 reads
Storage 101: Monitoring storage metrics
Well tuned storage is essential for SQL Server performance. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains the metrics that are important to watch.
2020-11-10
Finding the Free Space Difference Between Availability Groups Replicas
When was last time you have checked your Always On Availability Groups' replicas storage distribution?
2020-11-09
2,201 reads
Meet Redgate at PASS Virtual Summit
Redgate are Gold sponsors of PASS Virtual Summit, which this year is available to all online. It's time to accelerate your data career by joining Redgate's Advocates who will be presenting a variety of sessions, as well as demo solutions throughout the week of 11 - 13 November. See what's happening and register today.
2020-11-09 (first published: 2020-11-03)
SSRS Dynamic Row-Level Security with Recursive Hierarchy Group
In this article we walk through how to build a SQL Server Reporting Services report based on database level security settings by user to show different results to each user that runs the report.
2020-11-09
Service Broker Part 1: Service Broker Basics
This article covers SQL Server 2008 Service Broker, an asynchronous messaging framework that is directly integrated within the relational engine of SQL Server. The series will provides you with the basics about implementing Service Broker applications and how you can transparently scale them out to support any required workload.
2020-11-06 (first published: 2019-04-15)
62,837 reads
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Getting Database MaiL Profiles
If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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