Transactional Replication and the Ballooning Log File
A drive on a mission-critical server is reaching capacity, and the new DBA is panicking. How do you approach a ballooning log file that won’t stop growing?
2014-03-27
8,205 reads
Articles
SQL Server Analysis Services ProcessAdd for a Partition
Is there a way to process only the new data for a partition in SQL Server Analysis Services? Yes, this is accomplished in SQL Server Analysis Services with the ProcessAdd option for partitions. Daniel Calbimonte demonstrates how it works.
2014-03-27
4,415 reads
Private Cloud, What Is It and Why Do You Need It?
Even when organisations cannot make full use of public cloud for reasons of security or bandwidth limitations, many of the advantages of flexibility and rapid deployment can be made by providing a private cloud. Jaap Wesselius wonders if private clouds provide a new paradigm for enterprises.
2014-03-26
4,096 reads
Demonstrating the Effects of Using Data Compression in SQL Server
How much space would compressing a particular index will save? How will this affect query performance? Derek Colley walks you through the effects of using data compression in SQL Server.
2014-03-25
4,651 reads
Worst Day as a DBA Story Finalists
We asked DBAs to share their worst days. Some are funny, others tragic, many both. Here are the 5 finalists, vote for your favorite story to be THE worst day as a DBA.
2014-03-24
4,658 reads
Automating the Retrieval of SQL Backups from Windows Azure BLOB Storage
If your database server is in Azure, then it makes sense to do backups into Azure too. SQL Server 2014 supports backups to the cloud, and particularly well with Managed Backup. Once your backups are safely in an Azure BLOB, then what? Mike Wood takes up the story.
2014-03-24
2,259 reads
Automate Sliding Window Partition Maintenance: Part III
Part 3 of Hugh Scott's series on automating sliding window partitions in SQL Server using PowerShell
2014-03-21 (first published: 2010-12-28)
7,623 reads
On Handling Dates in SQL
The handling of dates in TSQL is complex - when SQL Server was Sybase, it was forced by the lack of prevailing standards in SQL to create its own ways of processing and formatting dates and times. Joe Celko looks forward to a future when it is possible to write standard SQL date-processing code with SQL Server.
2014-03-21
7,283 reads
Grant EXEC on all Stored Procedures to a Role
Easily grant exec permission to all stored procedures to a database role in SQL 2005 or higher.
2014-03-20
24,323 reads
The PoSh DBA – Specifying and Gathering Performance Counters
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
3,753 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)
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
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