Before you even install SQL Server, there a number of preparatory steps you need to take in order to get a new machine with a fresh copy of the operating system completely ready to install SQL Server properly. This is to maximize performance, reliability, and security.
2012-07-16
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How can you quickly and easily compare recordsets from different instances? This article will show you a quick way to do this with PowerShell.
2012-07-13
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The aim of the new Database Recovery Advisor in SQL Server 2012 is to simplify the task of piecing together a recovery sequence from multiple backup files, comprising full, differential, and log backups. In this article, I'll demonstrate how the tool makes it easier to plan for, and perform, a point in time recovery from a series of backups, in order to recover data that may have been lost due to an application bug, or user error.
2012-07-13
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The task will detect changes to existing files as well as new files, both actions will cause the file to be found when available. A file is available when the task can open it exclusively. This is important for files that take a long time to be written, such as large files, or those that are just written slowly or delivered via a slow network link.
2012-07-13
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This article will show you how to use user-defined triggers to supplement your security policies, preventing unauthorised data manipulation and blocking unfriendly logins.
2012-07-12
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Are you a database or BI expert supporting decisions in your company with reports or models using Microsoft tools? We want to hear how you do this and what you think of the trend towards 'self-service' analysis for business users. Share your experiences in a short survey.
2012-07-12
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Once you pass that point of just hurriedly writing PowerShell scripts for immediate use and start to write PowerShell functions for reuse, then you'll want a robust set of parameters that allow functions to work just like cmdlets.
2012-07-12
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Amazon RDS SQL Server is the new kid on the block. Is it better than SQL Azure?
2012-07-11
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As you design and deploy more and more reports to your Report Server, how do you review which reports are being run, how often, and how long the reports take to render?
2012-07-11
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Join us on July 10 at 4:00pm GMT/11:00am EDT for an in-depth look at SQL Storage Compress and learn how you can shrink the storage needs for your databases.
2012-07-10 (first published: 2012-06-26)
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Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
By Steve Jones
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By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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