If you need to keep tabs on a number of servers and applications in a Windows domain then performance counters provide the bedrock of information. It is important to identify the counters you need and gather baseline data to allow you to create alerts when abnormal conditions occur.
2014-03-20
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, Quentin Clark, corporate vice president of the Data Platform Group, announced that SQL Server 2014, the foundation of Microsoft’s cloud-first data platform, is released to manufacturing and will be generally available on April 1.
2014-03-19
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Greg Larsen discusses the BUCKET_COUNT setting of a HASH index and how to determine how well SQL Server distributes the In-Memory table rows across multiple buckets of a HASH index, by exploring a new DMV, provided with SQL Server 2014, along with the In-Memory OLTP table functionality.
2014-03-19
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When you've got only a single effective date on a record and you need to artificially create the effective end date based on a following row in T-SQL, the techniques discussed in this article will help you decide what is best.
2014-03-18
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The SQL Server Luxembourg user group will be meeting on March 26. This is a free event for all registered attendees, and will feature Richard Douglas and Tom Van Zele as speakers.
2014-03-18
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Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp, together with their small team of experts at SQLSkills.com, dominate the high-end training and consultancy for SQL Server. We sent Richard Morris to find out a bit more about Paul, his views about SQL Server, his lifestyle, ambitions and plans.
2014-03-18
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Instead of using a custom SSIS-based project to upload content from an on-premise SQL Server database to Azure PaaS-based SQL Database, Marcin Policht presents an alternative approach. Using the bcp utility not only eliminates the need for any custom development, but also rivals SSIS in terms of its data transfer efficiency.
2014-03-17
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Part 2 of a series on how to automate partition management. In this article learn how easy managing and maintaining a sliding window partition scheme can be with PowerShell.
2014-03-14 (first published: 2010-12-21)
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One of the core components of the Hadoop framework and responsible for the storage aspect is HDFS. Unlike the usual storage available on our computers, HDFS is a Distributed File System and parts of a single large file can be stored on different nodes across the cluster. Here are some of the key concepts related to HDFS.
2014-03-14
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SQL Saturday #292 in Detroit, MI, is looking for speakers. The event is May 17, 2014, and there are still some speaking slots available.
2014-03-14
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