Organizational Approaches to Master Data Management
This series of technical articles describes organizational approaches to master data management.
2011-11-11
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Articles
2011-11-10 (first published: 2010-02-24)
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Using and Creating Mount Points in SQL Server
This article talks about the use of mount points on Windows server for SQL Server installations and shows how you can create them.
2011-11-10
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Resource Governor
If you suffer from runaway queries, if you have several database applications with unpredictable fluctuation in workload, or if you need to ensure that workloads get the memory or CPU they need according to certain priorities, then you need Resource Governer, and you need Roy Ernest's clear explanation of the technology.
2011-11-10
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Create a Monitoring Server for SQL Server with PowerShell
At some point you are going to need a notification system for a range of events that occur in your servers. Laerte Junior shows how you can even set up temporary or permanent alerts for any WMI events to give you a system that fits your server environment perfectly.
2011-11-09
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SQL Server Professionals Survey – Win $50 Amazon voucher!
Take part in a simple 5-minute survey for SQL Server Professionals and win one of two $50 Amazon vouchers.
2011-11-09
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Field Level Auditing using Change Data Capture – Part 2
Second part of two part article on Change Data Capture for field level auditing and marting that data using SSIS for reports. I uploaded the entire Word document that includes the images.
2011-11-08
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2011-11-08 (first published: 2010-02-10)
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Script to calculate the Median value for SQL Server data
The standard SQL language has a number of aggregate functions like: SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG, but a common statistics function that SQL Server does not have is a built-in aggregate function for median. The median is the value that falls in the middle of a sorted resultset with equal parts that are smaller and equal parts that are greater. Since there is no built-in implementation for the median, the following is a simple solution I put together to find the median.
2011-11-08
2,817 reads
Quick and Dirty DR Solution Using Robocopy
This article covers how to use robocopy with SQL Server Agent to copy database backup files to another server.
2011-11-07
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