Databases in the Cloud: Elysian Fields or Briar Patch?
The cornucopia of products for handling distributed data in the cloud includes everything from lightweight key-value stores to industrial-strength databases
2009-10-14
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Articles
Great DBAs in History
What great historical figures would make great DBAs? A guest editorial from Grant Fritchey examines the traits and characteristics we look for in this role and which famous people we might choose and why.
2009-10-14
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Great DBAs in History
What great historical figures would make great DBAs? A guest editorial from Grant Fritchey examines the traits and characteristics we look for in this role and which famous people we might choose and why.
2009-10-14
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Great DBAs in History
What great historical figures would make great DBAs? A guest editorial from Grant Fritchey examines the traits and characteristics we look for in this role and which famous people we might choose and why.
2009-10-14
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Maintaining Security and Performance using Stored Procedures Part I – Using EXECUTE AS
Anyone who knows me, or has worked with me, knows that I am a proponent of using stored procedures for...
2009-10-14
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Open DBDiff for SQL Server 2008
The DBDiff utility compares two databases and generates a script to synchronize the two databases. In this article, MAK illustrates the various uses of the Open Diff utility.
2009-10-14
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Database Space Capacity Planning
Describes a process to create a consolidated space forecasting report, which focuses on a "days remaining" metric.
2009-10-13
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MSDE – Database Size Limit
Most of you are aware that the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) limits database size to 2 gigabytes. ...
2009-10-13
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SQL Server Tempdb Usage and Bottlenecks tracked with Extended Events
How do I effectively find out if the Tempdb database is suffering from an allocation bottleneck? Should I create multiple TempDB files per core on this server to improve performance? How do I check this information programmatically?
2009-10-13
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Using new location-aware data types in SQL Server 2008
With SQL Server 2008, you will have new built-in support for location based data types and supporting geospatial features. Next you will learn how these new data types work.
2009-10-13
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Blogs
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
Forums
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
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Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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