A lot of the routine jobs demanded of a DBA can be automated, but a tougher prospect is to automate these jobs in a way that the requestor rather than the DBA can actually set of the job running themselves without compromising security and without risk. Is it true to say that some tasks can be made self-service?
2014-10-23
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2014-10-22
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Imagine you come to work in the morning and notice that some new rows have been entered into the msdb.dbo.suspect_pages table during the night. Usually the first thing you’re going to do is run DBCC CHECKDB, but if your database is a few TB, that could be several hours before you know where the problem is, and which table may have lost data. You want to find out which table is involved as soon as possible so you can explore your disaster recovery options.
2014-10-22
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Scott Swanberg shares 38 scripts he uses time and time again for discovering more about database objects.
2014-10-21
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Red Gate are developing new tools for users of SSDT and Database Projects in Visual Studio. If you use these technologies, help us make our tools ingeniously simple by completing this 10 minute survey.
2014-10-21
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2014-10-20
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DevIntersection and SQLIntersection conference will bring together experts from Microsoft, SQLSkills, .NET Rocks, and 90 industry gurus.
2014-10-20
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Besides the technical skills required to be a proficient SQL Server business intelligence developer, there are numerous "soft" skills that can contribute to your success.
2014-10-20
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Aaron Bertrand supplies a script which generates two separate sets of commands: one to drop all foreign key constraints, and one to create them again. These scripts are stored in a table so that, if you drop the constraints and then disaster of some kind strikes during the create, you still have everything handy and can troubleshoot if needed.
2014-10-17
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This article shows a problem with P2P replication doesn't replicate DDL schema changes and something you might want to check.
2014-10-16
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There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
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