The database recovery model plays a crucial role for the recovery of a database. With several DBAs having access to a SQL Server instance there are bound to be changes that are not communicated. In this tip we cover a monitoring solution we deployed at our company to alert the DBAs if a database recovery model is different than what it is expected.
2011-11-02
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If you work with SSMS, you’ll know how frustrating it can be when tasks you perform every day aren’t part of the core features. Malden Prajdic certainly did, which is why he developed his free SSMS Tools Pack. Now on its second version, Grant Fritchey explains the functionality of this great free plugin.
2011-11-02
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A two part article on Change Data Capture for field level auditing and marting that data using SSIS for reports.
2011-11-01
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2011-11-01 (first published: 2010-01-27)
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At some time or another every DBA has been faced with the challenge of solving a deadlock issue in their SQL Server database. In the following tip we will look at how indexes and more specifically clustered indexes on the right columns can help reduce the chance of your applications receiving this dreaded error
2011-11-01
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This challenge invites you to Generate kaprekar kernel or series from numbers.
2011-10-31
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Using the Kimball Data Warehouse Modeling Tool in an agile setting supporting regular builds and integrated testing with work a rounds to cover non-SQL Server systems.
2011-10-31
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If you have a requirement to install multiple SQL Server instances with the same settings, you most likely want to do it without following the numerous manual installation steps. The below tip will guide you through how to install a SQL Server instance with less effort.
2011-10-31
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This article lists the essential TCP/UDP ports that an administrator running SQL Server or a cluster should know.
2011-10-28
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In this blog, you will see the reproducible steps that reveal the following observation: “If the table has a persisted computed column*, the query optimizer will choose a clustered index scan over a clustered index seek.”
2011-10-28
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It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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