Using Lookup Function to Bridge Datasets in Report Builder
The report function, lookup, can be used to link two independent datesets.
2013-07-29
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Articles
VMware High Availability in SQL Server
With the massive number of servers running SQL Server within virtual machines (VMs), it's critically important for DBAs to understand the high availability options available when SQL Server is running within a VM.
2013-07-29
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Configuring Database Mirroring
This article contains a set of instructions for configuring SQL Server mirroring, including pre-requisites. It also includes notes on how to resolve a few issues that I have encountered.
2013-07-26 (first published: 2011-02-01)
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2013-07-26
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PowerShell the SQL Server Way
Although Windows PowerShell has been available to IT professionals going on seven years, there are still many IT pros who are just now deciding to see what the fuss is all about. Depending on your job, you might find PowerShell an invaluable tool. Microsoft's plan is that PowerShell will be the management tool for all of its servers and platforms. For most IT pros, it's not a matter of if you'll be using PowerShell, only a matter of when.
2013-07-26
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Finding lost or forgotten SQL Servers
This article will show a way to find all SQL Servers, particularly those that have been forgotten about or lost.
2013-07-25 (first published: 2011-04-19)
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AlwaysOn in SQL Server 2014 CTP1
AlwaysOn encompasses the SQL Server solutions for mission-critical high availability and disaster recovery. Two solutions were included under the AlwaysOn umbrella in SQL Server 2012: Availability Groups and Failover Cluster Instances. Each solution has different characteristics, making them appropriate for different scenarios, and both can be combined in the same deployment.
2013-07-25
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Disaster Recovery Tip #6 - Monitor Your Systems
Today's complex systems are too large to be able to rely on any DBA's memory for knowledge of each component, and its configuration options and settings.
2013-07-25
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Rendering images from a database on SSRS reports
Looking for a way to put images on SSRS reports and allow the business users to change the images every so often? This article explains how to implement this in such a way that you don't have to modify a report when the image is changed.
2013-07-24
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Are my actual worker threads exceeding the sp_configure 'max worker threads' value?
Tom Stringer (@SQLife) was working on some HADR testing for a customer to simulate many availability groups and introduce significant load into the system to measure overhead and such. In his quest to do that he was seeing behavior that he couldn’t really explain and so worked with him to uncover what was happening under the covers.
2013-07-23
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BIT_COUNT() IV
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