SMO can be a valuable tool for working with SQL Server when you don't have access to all the tools that come with the platform. In this article, SMO helps solve an issue with a SQL Server.
2012-07-26
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Sparse columns and column sets in SQL Server 2012 provide a way of accomodating the less-structured data that has always proved to be tricky for the relational model. They can be used very effectively where the attributes are sparse for any given entity and very numerous across all entities. Seth Delconte shows how to use them.
2012-07-26
1,410 reads
Free training in New York. Come learn about SQL Server, meet other pros, and then enjoy a night in the city.
2012-07-26
1,402 reads
Red Gate Software is looking to offer a new monitoring service and is looking for opinions and ideas in making it happen.
2012-07-25
1,247 reads
We’ve all heard about Extended Events and how they can help troubleshoot SQL Server performance, connectivity, and locking problems, but they seem so difficult to implement using T-SQL. Isn’t there a better way to implement SQL Server Extended Events?
2012-07-25
3,142 reads
On Thursday July 26th 12PM noon Central, Ami Levin will revisit some of the fundamental principles of relational databases – normalization rules, key selection and some controversies surrounding these rules.
2012-07-25
1,559 reads
This article demonstrated the steps which you must follow to gracefully truncate the publisher database transaction log file by resetting replication.
2012-07-24
11,633 reads
Wednesday July 25 2012, 6:00pm BST: Learn how you can use SQL Monitor to gather information and alert on extra performance data for your servers and applications, making this tool vital for keeping an eye on your business. In this free webinar David Bick, Product Manager at Red Gate, will give you an overview of SQL Monitor including the new custom metric functionality in v3.
2012-07-24 (first published: 2012-07-06)
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When SQL Server 2008 was released the Microsoft product group came out with a new feature called "Change Data Capture" that allows you to track the changes that occur to a table. Greg Larsen gives you a primer of how to implement change data capture and how to review the captured information to produce an audit trail of the changes to a database table.
2012-07-24
2,689 reads
BBQ and SQL Server. Come to a free day of training in Kansas City on Aug 4.
2012-07-24
1,479 reads
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