Monitoring SQL Server with Splunk and SQL Monitor

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• SQL Monitoring

Splunk is a search engine for collecting and analyzing all sorts of "machine data", including log data and metrics for SQL Server. SQL Monitor gives you the detailed diagnostic view of all your SQL Server instances, and databases. If you have Splunk to monitor your applications and server infrastructure, and SQL Monitor to help you understand the behavior of a complex database system such as SQL Server, then you have a powerful and capable monitoring tool set.

2020-01-24

Prevent SQL Server Blocking using Lock_Timeout

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• Concurrency

In this tip we look at a way to minimize the length of blocking using SQL Server lock timeout.

2020-01-24

Comments and More in PowerShell

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• PowerShell

Comments are helpful when programming in any language, and PowerShell is no exception. In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates how to use comments to document code and to add prerequisites in PowerShell with #Requires.

2020-01-23

Prevent SQL Server Blocking using Lock_Timeout

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Concurrency | T-SQL | Code Samples - In this tip we look at a way to minimize the length of blocking using SQL Server lock timeout.

2020-01-23

Database Security, People and Processes

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• Data Privacy and Protection
• Data Protection

Protecting data is not easy, but it is critical. In this article, David Poole discusses database security and the behaviors needed to build secure systems.

2020-01-22

Removing the Square Bracket Decorations with SQL Prompt

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• SQL PROMPT

If you avoid illegal characters and reserved words in your identifiers, you'll rarely need delimiters. Sadly, SSMS applies square bracket delimiters indiscriminately, as a precaution, when generating build scripts. Phil Factor provides a handy function that adds quoted delimiters only where they are really needed and then sits back and lets SQL Prompt strip out any extraneous square brackets, in a flash.

2020-01-22

New release: SQL Change Automation 4.1

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• SQL Change Automation

We’ve heard from users that they really care about static data and were missing the feature in the SQL Change Automation SSMS plugin. In v4.1, we’ve added support for the tracking of static data tables to the SSMS extension, alongside existing support in the VS extension. Maya Malakova has written a technical summary showing how to use this feature. Learn more about the release here.

2020-01-21

Types of SQL Server Indexes

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• Query performance

In this tip we will go through each type of index that is available in SQL Server and give an overview as well as advice on which index types fit each particular use case.

2020-01-21

Using Aliases in SQL Prompt

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• SQL PROMPT

Phil Factor explores the role of table aliases, explaining when they are required, and their general purpose otherwise, the need for sensible naming of aliases, and how SQL Prompt handles them.

2020-01-20

Using Calendars and Dates in Power BI

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You can use a host of time-intelligence functions in DAX to calculate everything from simple year-to-date totals to moving averages and average opening and closing balances. In this article, Andy Brown shows how to model various scenarios with calendars and dates, and how to get around some of the issues you may encounter.

2020-01-20

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