My company is heavily dependant on SQL Server transactional replication and once in awhile the default alerts are not sufficient and sometimes we want to be able to disable alerts when we perform maintenance. In this tip I will show you a few scripts I have implemented to allow me to better manage our transactional replication.
2009-12-22
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Recent installments of our series dedicated to the most important features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on its Full Text Indexing capabilities. This article covers other full text indexing management methods.
2009-12-21
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I know there are fixed database roles that come with SQL Server. How do I best use them within my installations? What should I watch out for? In this tip we will cover each of the database roles and recommendations on when to and when not to use them.
2009-12-18
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SQLDIAG or PSSDIAG are excellent tools used to collect and analyze data in order to identify possible performance root causes. The issue is that the output produced by such utilities is sometimes convoluted, hard to read and hard to understand. In this tip, I will show you a tool that you can use to read and analyze the data collected by these tools.
2009-12-17
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BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his discussion of Partition planning for Analysis Services, this time focusing on the settings and properties involved from a SQL Server Management Studio perspective.
2009-12-16
2,465 reads
There are situations in which you need to individually handle each row in a result set. SQL Server 2008 provides a minimal set of tools — cursors and WHILE loops — to accomplish this task. I'll take a closer look at each option and explain why it's difficult to pinpoint which is better in terms of performance.
2009-12-11
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Don Schlichting demonstrates the development of a SQL Azure ASP Dot Net application, leveraging our existing TSQL and Dot Net skills.
2009-12-11
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In this tip we will look at an add-in that helps you better identify changes between two versions of an SSIS package.
2009-12-10
3,071 reads
Learn how to use SQL Server Transact SQL with OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY commands to access and retrieve data from Active Directory.
2009-12-09
5,402 reads
One of the Junior SQL Server Database Administrator in my company approached me yesterday with a dilemma. He was assigned a task to rename few of the databases in Beta and Production environments; the reason being the database name was based on some other project that is no longer relevant to the data which is presently stored within the database. At first I started to tell him, but figured it would be smarter to document the same and share the information.
2009-12-08
6,195 reads
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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