Learn how you can gain estate-wide views of disk space usage, backups and other jobs, and application of recent SQL Server updates and patches, with SQL Monitor 9’s Estate pages. Using this feature, teams can review the overall health of all their servers and databases, identify potential issues before they escalate into real problems, and assign priorities, proactively.
2019-08-28
In this tip we look at some scripts you can use to monitor your database activity and usage based on the size of the SQL Server transaction log backups.
2019-08-28
Introduction Fill Factor is a parameter most of us have ignored because there is no definitive way to calculate what the correct value should be. Part 1 of this series describes a new technique to dynamically determine index fill factors for all indexes within a database. Part 2 covers an analysis of the data collection […]
2019-08-27
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Thursday August 29 18.00-19.00 BST / 10.00-11.00 Pacific - Register for this Microsoft hosted webinar to learn how Redgate tools for SQL Server help deliver software quickly.
2019-08-27
While the most common methods of interacting with Azure Cosmos DB involve programmatic access, there are times when you might want to perform a quick change or take a peek at some of documents in a collection. In such instances, it is typically more convenient to rely on the graphical interface. Fortunately, there are several options you can use to accomplish.
2019-08-27
With most innovative new technologies, Azure Stretch Database demos make it look completely easy. Here is a step by step to get going, with examples. Part One of a Two-Part series.
2019-08-26
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Five SQL Server experts have brought their collective years of experience working with and maintaining SQL Server data systems to identify the four strategies required for a successful estate-wide SQL Server monitoring solution.
2019-08-26
So far in this series, Andy Brown of Wise Owl Training has shed light on functions like CALCULATE, VALUES and FILTER, but it’s only when you understand the idiosyncrasies of the EARLIER function that you can claim to have genuinely cracked DAX. This article gives four examples of the use of this peculiar function, in the process explaining why it has such a misleading name. Using the EARLIER function properly all boils down (as is so often the case with DAX) to understanding row and filter context. The article also shows how to use the RANKX function to sort data into your required order.
2019-08-26
Run multiple instances of your package in parallel so that each instance processes a portion of the total number of files
2019-08-23 (first published: 2017-11-07)
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Poor data quality for any reason is very expensive in terms of man hours and decision making to all organizations. There are a number of ways to address the issue with both SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI.
2019-08-23
By SQLPals
Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022 ...
By Steve Jones
Last week I spent a few days in Cambridge, UK for the Redgate Company...
By alevyinroc
This is long overdue but life and distractions happened. It’s been a little over...
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I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers