Monitoring In-Memory OLTP: What's Important?

In-Memory OLTP has evolved to be a great solution. However, a production system that uses it needs careful monitoring to avoid stress conditions becoming problems. As with many new features of SQL Server, it pays to plan a monitoring strategy to ensure that you are alerted as soon as possible when things go awry.

Simplify SQL Server ETL Processes with T-SQL Stored Procedures

Jeremy Kadlec introduces the Enhanced Data Integration Suite (EDIS), a SQL Server T-SQL stored procedure based solution to automate, manage, and audit ETL processes so you no longer have to manually build SSIS Packages.

Data security, SQL Server 2016, and Your Business

From an IT infrastructure and compliance perspective, the importance of protecting data is clear. But it also has profound business implications and can even be a competitive differentiator by helping drive customer loyalty and retention. David Hobbs-Mallyon talks about Microsoft’s approach to data security.

Find and Remove Duplicate Records SQL Server

Learn a quick method to find and remove duplicate records in your SQL Server tables.

The PoSh DBA - Towards the Re-usable PowerShell Script

When starting out with PowerShell, it is hard to escape from the detail to work out the best strategy for creating scripts. Laerte Junior explains how, when and why it pays to think in terms of versatile functions to meet varying demands.

Using the Statistical Program R for Running Statistics

This article talks about using the statistical program, R, for applying simple statistics against data in Microsoft SQL Server.

The SQL Server 2016 Query Store: Built-in Reporting

One of the most important features of the SQL Server 2016's new Query Store is the reporting. With these features, it is now possible to get a wealth of information on how your query workload is performing, either aggregated for the entire query workload or for a single query. With this information, you can see the effects of 'forcing' an execution plan for specific queries and get feedback of the consequences.

A Review of rsNeatPublish

rsNeatPublish: Toolset to automate deployment of all SSRS 2008R2/12/14/16 objects

Using PowerShell for SQL Server Replication Tracking

Tim Smith shows how using PowerShell can be an effective way to track SQL Server snapshot and transactional replication counts for sources and destinations.

Byte Me: Making Enemies