SQL Saturday #158 - New York City
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
Articles
Help Red Gate create a new monitoring tool
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
1,249 reads
Managing SQL Server Extended Events in Management Studio
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
PASS Data Architecture VC presents Ami Levin on Where Are My (Primary) Keys?
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
Process to truncate transaction log of replicated database
This article demonstrated the steps which you must follow to gracefully truncate the publisher database transaction log file by resetting replication.
2012-07-24
11,658 reads
Free Webinar: Monitoring your business, not just your servers – Getting the most out of SQL Monitor
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)
4,981 reads
Implementing SQL Server's Change Data Capture
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
SQL Saturday #159 - Kansas City
BBQ and SQL Server. Come to a free day of training in Kansas City on Aug 4.
2012-07-24
1,479 reads
Introduction to Indexes: Part 3 – The nonclustered index
Part 3 of a great series on the basics of indexes. Learn the structure, definition, and how to examine the use of these indexes in your queries.
2012-07-23 (first published: 2009-11-18)
53,417 reads
Developing Low-Maintenance Databases
Alex Kuznetsov's team of developers are geared to doing rapid development of database applications in a busy corporate setting, yet take considerable time over meticulous database design, extensive constraints, automated tests, error logs, and defensive coding. Why? Because it cuts down on the subsequent need for maintenance.
2012-07-23
3,977 reads
Blogs
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