Automating Database Restores
This article describes a way to automatically restore multiple database backups from a directory.
2014-04-21
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Articles
Monitoring SQL Server: An Interview with David Bick
Simple-Talk sat down with David Bick, a Red Gate Product Manager, to discuss his work on SQL Monitor and why passively monitoring SQL Server just doesn’t cut it anymore.
2014-04-21
4,290 reads
SQL Saturday #305: Dallas, BA Edition
Please join us on Saturday, May 3rd, 2014, as both business analysts and IT professionals come to learn and network with experts for the first SQLSaturday Business Analytics edition. Please register while space is available
2014-04-18
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Unexpected View Performance
Views that use implicit conversion to return result sets may use a different query plan than the statement executed in query analyzer.
2014-04-18 (first published: 2011-01-11)
13,907 reads
SQL Server Performance Tuning Using Wait Statistics: A Beginner's Guide
This beginner's guide to Wait Stats by Jonathan Kehayias and Erin Stellato is a free PDF download brought to you by SQL Skills and Simple-Talk.
2014-04-18
5,338 reads
XML Schema validation in SQL Server
An introduction to the XML Schema Collection and XML validation.
2014-04-17
19,674 reads
Call for participants in deployment process research
The Red Gate Database Delivery team is looking for people willing to participate in UX sessions for an exciting, brand new product, with $50 Amazon vouchers for participants.
2014-04-17
2,901 reads
Explaining the Calculations of Probability and Importance for Complex Association Rules in SSAS
The output from the Association Rules data mining model in SSAS 2012 can be difficult to understand, especially when the generated rules become more complex. In this tip we go through an example to provide a better understanding.
2014-04-17
3,252 reads
SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Dynamic Management Views
Greg Larsen provides a quick primer of the new Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) to help you better understand and manage your In-Memory OLTP tables and your Instances that support In-Memory OLTP tables.
2014-04-16
4,379 reads
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Table size (MB)
This metric is useful if you want to know exactly how much physical space a particular table is taking up, including the size of its indexes. If a database is growing quickly within a short time and you suspect a certain table is responsible, you can monitor its actual size, or the rate at which it is increasing.
2014-04-15
2,050 reads
Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
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Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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