Database administrators have enormous responsibility whether they manage one or hundreds of servers. Monica Rathbun tells us how she survived as the Lone DBA for 56 database servers for over a decade. While many DBAs work on teams instead of alone, she has great advice for all.
2018-02-27
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How to configure multiple publishers and single subscriber replication?
2018-02-26
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Tara Kizer outlines 15 telltale signs that you aren't a very good senior DBA.
2018-02-26
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Loops are common in application code, but set-based solutions are the way to go with SQL.
2018-02-23 (first published: 2015-12-29)
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You’ve been performance tuning queries and indexes for a few years, but lately, you’ve been running into problems you can’t explain. Could it be RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE, THREADPOOL, or lock escalation? These problems only pop up under heavy load or concurrency, so they’re very hard to detect in a development environment.
2018-02-23
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This article outlines the performance innovations in SQL Server 2016 for Columnstore Index and BatchMode Execution.
2018-02-22
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Technology is constantly moving forward, but it is also helpful to understand how we arrived where we are today. Joe Celko reminisces about the history of database design and how it relates to the concept of ‘Degree of Duplication’ in this article.
2018-02-22
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SQL Server Reporting Services has been the go to reporting solution for SQL Server for almost a decade now. In many organizations, the ease of development, web front end and security make SSRS the tool of choice.
2018-02-21
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A Sudoku solution can be resolved using a single select statement. The first article shows this method and next how this can be optimised to resolve complex puzzles in seconds.
2018-02-20
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If you have a database backup of a Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled database, the database backup will contain encrypted data. Because the database backup contains encrypted data you can’t just restore it to any instance. You can only restore the database backup to an instance that contains the same certificate used to originally encrypt the database.
2018-02-20
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Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
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I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
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How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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