Where do you start fixing a SQL Server crash when there isn’t a single clue? The DBA Team had better find out quick, or they’re not going to get any sleep tonight. Find out how it all goes.
2014-10-16
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Recently, we have been exploring the ability to administer Azure SQL Database by leveraging REST APIs invoked from PowerShell-based scripts. Such an approach offers more flexibility, facilitating functionality that is not directly exposed in the PowerShell cmdlets. In this article Marcin Policht shows the benefits when dealing directly with Azure SQL Databases.
2014-10-15
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Point-in-Time Restore is a new feature of the SQL Azure Service Tiers
2014-10-14
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Red Gate is looking to build tools and features to help reduce the risk of database deployment. In order to achieve this, we need to get a better understanding of the most common deployment problems you are encountering when moving changes from development to production. Please help by filling in our two-page survey.
2014-10-14
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It is strange that one can ask simple questions about extended events or Hekaton at professional events and conferences without feeling embarrassed, yet nobody likes to ask vital questions about SQL Server primary keys and foreign keys. Fear not, here are 13 questions you were too shy to ask, answered.
2014-10-14
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Trying to determine if you have pressure in your buffer allocations can be difficult. This metric reliably indicates if you have a buffer problem using the memory dump from DBCC MEMORYSTATUS() and comparing Target Committed to the Current Committed allocations. If you hit negative numbers you are looking at a buffer issue.
2014-10-14
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As working hours in tech trend upwards, we look at some ways to make life easier.
2014-10-13
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Here is a step by step procedure to create a linked server to MySQL from SQL Server.
2014-10-13
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Join the world's largest gathering of SQL Server and BI professionals in Seattle on November 4-7. PASS Summit is your conference – planned by and for the SQL Server community. Red Gate will be exhibiting, so drop by their booth and say hello. Register while space is available.
2014-10-13
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Greg Larsen shows you a number of different ways to use the UPDATE statement to modify the data in your SQL Server tables.
2014-10-13
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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