This custom metric adds Brent Ozar's popular SP_Blitz scripts to Red Gate SQL Monitor. It looks for configuration, security, health and performance problems, and reports back with a list of issues for you to look into. It’s great for quickly understanding the state of a server you've been asked to look after.
2013-05-29
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This post tells you how to change the QUOTED_IDENTIFIER and ANSI_NULLS settings of a database objects using Powershell.
2013-05-28
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Red Gate Software is bringing SQL in the City, the popular free training event, back to the US in three new cities. This October, the events will take place in Pasadena, Atlanta and Charlotte.
2013-05-28 (first published: 2013-05-24)
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One way of getting the advantages of the Cloud without having to migrate the entire database is to just maintain a copy of the data that needs to be accessible to internet-based users in Windows Azure SQL Database. There are various ways of keeping the two in sync, and Feodor Georgiev describes a solution based in using SSIS.
2013-05-28
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Rodney Landrum on why many DBAs find it hard to ask for, and take, their due DBAcations.
2013-05-27
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When installing 2 SQL Server instances on a Windows Cluster, the installation program requires a Named Instance during the installation of the second node and a dynamic TCP port is created. How do you update the TCP port after the installation in a clustered environment for the named instance?
2013-05-27
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This is a landing page for the sample SQL Server databases we are aware of.
2013-05-24
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Looking for a job in the SQL Server industry can be a challenge for many people. Craig Farrell examines part of this process in his look at job postings and how you can interpret them.
2013-05-24 (first published: 2011-04-14)
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In this tip we would look using an existing SSRS report to provide the data for PowerPivot in Excel.
2013-05-24
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Capturing the activity on a server when a problem occurs can be a challenge for many DBAs. This article shows how you can automate the capture of information when a CPU spike occurs.
2013-05-23
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What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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