Managing Data in the Cloud
Crunching data or having access to vast amounts of data is crucial for many applications.
2010-12-07
2,143 reads
Articles
The Basics of Troubleshooting
After seeing several cases in the past couple of months where I felt the basics of troubleshooting were violated, I...
2010-12-07
2,805 reads
Stairway to Database Design
A series by Joe Celko that examines the craft of designing a database to meet your needs.
2010-12-06
12,942 reads
Signal Waits and Resource Waits...a clarification
Signal Waits vs. Resource Waits
During my presentation at SQLSaturday#59, I spoke about the categories of wait types, such as...
2010-12-06
3,713 reads
Uninstalling a SQL Server Clustered Instance
I have installed and uninstalled several instances of SQL Server in the past. Today, I need to uninstall a SQL Server 2008 R2 clustered instance. I have never uninstalled a clustered instance of SQL Server before. Can you provide a how-to guide to uninstall a clustered instance of SQL Server 2008 R2?
2010-12-06
3,572 reads
SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Using SSRS
A first look at the Performance Dashboard in SQL Server 2005 by new author Robert Griffin.
2010-12-03 (first published: 2009-07-29)
28,423 reads
3 Fundamental Questions about Data Marts...and Their Answers
A data mart provides the primary access to the data stored in the data warehouse or operational data store. It is a subset of data sourced from the data warehouse or operational data store specifically focused on a business function or set of related business functions. Read on to learn the answers to fundamental questions about data marts.
2010-12-03
5,164 reads
How Do I Change SSRS Report Credentials with Powershell?
Today’s script took a long time to write. The concepts are fairly simple and the resulting script is quite trivial...
2010-12-03
3,056 reads
Plays Well With Others – Eight Behaviors of Excellent Leaders
Last week, I talked about one of the worst type of management scenarios to work under – the micromanager. Now, let’s...
2010-12-03
2,401 reads
SQLServerCentral Webinar Series #4: How to Monitor your SQL Servers
You can monitor your servers with the new SQL Monitor software from Red Gate Software. MVP Brad McGehee showed how the SQLServerCentral servers are being monitored publicly. The slide decks and Q&A transcript at available.
2010-12-02 (first published: 2010-11-09)
4,762 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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