SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer
A big part of my DBA career has centered around identifying and sharing SQL Server DBA best practices. There are...
2010-12-02
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Articles
Script Task Exception Handling in SSIS
When working with Script Task of SQL Server 2008 Integration Services, it is important to ensure that your custom code complies with the most elementary programming practices. Learn how to handle unexpected errors that interfere with the successful execution of your code.
2010-12-01
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Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On
The other day I was asked to provide the port number that a SQL Server instance was listening on. As...
2010-12-01
1,744 reads
SQLServerCentral Webinar Series #5: Setup Your Source Control With Help from PowerShell
MVP Allen White shows how he can use Powershell to setup SQL Source Control from Red Gate Software on Nov 18, 2010.
2010-11-30 (first published: 2010-11-10)
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Determining An Enterprise Execution Policy Setting
Windows PowerShell has the concept of execution policy that determines in which cases script and configuration files are able to...
2010-11-30
1,310 reads
Troubleshoot Database Concurrency in SQL Server with sp_locks
sp_locks is a useful tool which can help a DBA in detecting and troubleshooting blocking and concurrency scenarios. This article demonstrates a worked example of using sp_locks to troubleshoot a database concurrency issue.
2010-11-30
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Analyzing Product Growth with the Management Data Warehouse
This article presents a case study of using the Management Data Warehouse feature in SQL Server 2008 to analyze disk usage trends by product.
2010-11-29
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TSQL Challenge 44 – Identify products that belong to each unique color
The first part of your job is to identify the unique color combinations of products and the second part is to identify the products that have the given color combination.
2010-11-29
1,360 reads
Custom sp_start_job to delay next task until SQL Agent Job has completed
The system stored procedure sp_start_job is a very useful T-SQL command that starts a SQL Agent job. The problem with this is that it starts the job and it doesn't wait until the job is finished and sometimes I want to start a job and wait until the job is finished and move on to another job or task that depends on the result of the previous job.
2010-11-29
3,405 reads
SQL Saturday #61 - DC
A day of free training near Washington DC in December. Come and learn how more about SQL Server.
2010-11-29 (first published: 2010-11-23)
1,920 reads
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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