DBA Skills: Striped Backup Video
Watch this short video on creating a striped backup for your database.
2015-02-18
772 reads
Articles
Application Containers For Cloud Computing
Containers promise to make applications more portable and efficient. The technology, originally based on Linux's cgroups, provides a way of running several applications as modular, platform-agnostic packages in isolation on the same server. Docker's open-source approach to containers has dominated the market, and Microsoft is producing its own equivalent Windows system. What next? Will Containers replace VMS? Robert Sheldon investigates.
2015-02-18
8,746 reads
The Real World: Rebuilding Index - 1 Instance, 106 Databases
The article show a simple way we managed to schedule index rebuild and reorg for an SQL instance with 106 databases used by one application using a Scheduled job.
2015-02-17
6,523 reads
Automate SQL Server Express Backups and Purge Old Backups
SQL Server Express Edition does not include SQL Server Agent in order to schedule the SQL Server database backups. Here's how to automate the backups for SQL Server Express Edition and make sure the old backup files are deleted.
2015-02-17
10,685 reads
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Tempdb Allocation Contention
If your code uses temporary tables, variable tables or dynamic cursors, this metric can help identify whether you have contention on tempdb allocation. Tempdb is shared by all databases and is used for many operations in a SQL Server instance, so it is common for tempdb to cause performance problems.
2015-02-17
8,580 reads
What’s going on, on my server, right now?
Quick and easy way to monitor server activity and be notified from alerts.
2015-02-16 (first published: 2013-07-23)
21,633 reads
Managing Test Data as a Database CI Component - Part 1
Constructing a test environment for your databases can be a difficult task at the best of times. Once you’ve actually acquired the hardware needed and architected the environment, you still have to arrange and securely transport the data. And with the rising demand for fast feedback and continuously integrated processes, having all of this automated and operating at speed is a challenge all of its own.
2015-02-16
7,538 reads
Cascaded Parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services
You have a reporting requirement where a user has two or more parameters for a single report, but the values for one parameter depend on the values chosen in a previous parameter. Ghanesh Prasad explains how to create cascaded parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services to solve this issue.
2015-02-13
8,304 reads
SQL Saturday #371 - Tampa, FL
SQL Saturdau is coming to Tampa on February 28, 2015. This is a free training event for those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Register while space is available.
2015-02-13
7,335 reads
How to use the IsNothing Inspection Function in SSRS
SSRS includes multiple functions that can be used in within an expression. This article hopes to just show an example of how to use the IsNothing function in an SSRS report.
2015-02-12
62,481 reads
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RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers