I have been hearing about Microsoft's scripting language called Windows PowerShell which is extensively used nowdays for administering and managing Windows servers and workstations. Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2008 are just two of the Microsoft server products that have included this as part of their administrative tools. I want to know how Windows PowerShell can help me as a SQL Server DBA.
2009-02-20
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With the full-text search features in SQL Server, along with several hybrid search methods for comprehensive table scanning, companies can better meet specific business needs.
2009-02-20
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I have always been of the personal opinion that all SQL Server tables have a clustered index. As part of the research I am doing on a new book on High Performance Index Maintenance , and on heaps specifically, I ran across this SQL Server Best Practices...
2009-02-20
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This SQL School video explains how to use the Data Mining add-in for Excel 2007. The installation and configuration are covered.
2009-02-19
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New author Jason Crider brings us a few tricks and tips that can help you be a more efficient DBA, or a more efficient employee in general using technology.
2009-02-19
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Join SQL Server authors and MVPs for a week of warehousing and get the latest on Microsoft Business Intelligence inside your environment. If you are in any stage of a data warehouse design, administration or planning you won't want to miss out on this free "week of warehousing" webinar series, free from SQLServerCentral.com and in partership with Wrox and Pragmatic Works.
2009-02-19 (first published: 2009-01-28)
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One thing most DBAs try to avoid whenever possible is unexpected downtime. It still happens, and we have to deal with it. This Friday Steve Jones asks in the poll how much it happens to you.
2009-02-19
606 reads
One thing most DBAs try to avoid whenever possible is unexpected downtime. It still happens, and we have to deal with it. This Friday Steve Jones asks in the poll how much it happens to you.
2009-02-19
636 reads
One thing most DBAs try to avoid whenever possible is unexpected downtime. It still happens, and we have to deal with it. This Friday Steve Jones asks in the poll how much it happens to you.
2009-02-19
857 reads
You can read the previous posts here. To finish up my thoughts on networking I want to brain storm some about how we might make it easier and more effective for the average Joe (which is most of us) to network. If you've been to the PASS Summit, or...
2009-02-19
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By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
The state-of-the-art FARE Labs Environmental Testing Laboratory provides a broad range of testing services...
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I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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