Make SQL Server monitoring part of your deployment process for 2020

As we approach 2020, demand for more frequent deployments continues to rise. With this, management of SQL Server availability needs to evolve.

Now’s the time to consider how SQL Server monitoring could improve your deployment performance. In this whitepaper, learn how SQL Server monitoring can help your development and DBA teams work together to remove bottlenecks and enable faster, more reliable deployments.

What Does PERCENTILE_CONT Do?

In this article, Kathi Kellenberger takes on a logic puzzle in trying to understand how the windowing function, PERCENTILE_CONT, works.

Create a New SQL Server Maintenance Plan with the Maintenance Plan Designer

In this tip we look at how to use the SQL Server Maintenance Designer to build maintenance plans for your databases and instance.

Accelerating Database Recovery with SQL Server 2019

Learn how to turn on and use newer SQL Server database recovery option called “Accelerated Database Recover”.

SQL Productivity with SQL Prompt

There is an old joke that upgrading to the latest SQL Server is wasted on some DBAs, because they will still stick mainly to what worked in SQL Server 2005. This type of DBA is becoming rare, in my experience, but there is still some truth in the idea that many of us don’t get the ‘full power’ from our SQL Server tools. We work with them as they come, ‘out of the box’, and use only a fraction of their features. The time to explore ‘new stuff’, at least as much as we’d like to, remains elusive.

Splitting a SQL Server Table Over Multiple Files

In this tip we look at how to move SQL Server tables from one filegroup to another filegroup.

Planning for SAP HANA Deployments in Public Cloud Environments

Learn about the factors that should be taken into account if you are considering hosting SAP HANA in a public cloud.

Recreating Databases from Scratch with SQL Change Automation

Phil Factor starts with the basics how to rebuild a set of development database from scratch, using SQL Change Automation, and then demonstrates how to check for any active sessions before rebuilding, import test data using BCP, and secure passwords if connecting to the target with SQL Server credentials.

Establishing a DevOps Organisation

DevOps might sound intimidating if your organisation has not yet begun on its DevOps journey. In this article, Rahul Varshneya explains some of the benefits and reviews the stages all DevOps organisations go through to achieve it.

Using the SQL Compare command line with Argfiles

Phil Factor demonstrates how using XML argfiles to pass parameters to SQL Compare cuts out a lot of the tedious scripting involved in modifying a database schema comparison and deployment process, as required for each target database.