This paper introduces the new extensions in SQL Server Management Studio and the Control Point Explorer, and it walks through the simple process of setting up a SQL Server managed server group, including SQL Server Control Point installation, enrolling an instance into central management, extracting Data-tier Applications from existing deployments, and deploying Data-tier Applications to the new managed server group.
2010-01-05
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In this article, we are going to focus on writing or refactoring the data access codes using the best practices. But, before we start playing the game, we need to prepare the ground first. So let’s do the groundwork at this very next step:
2010-01-04
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In his continuing quest to bring a deeper understanding of Query Optimizer to the world at large, Fabiano Amorim takes a moment to point out a potential pitfall you may encounter. A light read, but one worth persuing.
2010-01-01
3,379 reads
A set of different connection strings for using with different providers for SQL Server.
2009-12-31
8,480 reads
In which Phil decides to use a table consisting of all the common words in English to explore ways of cheating at Scrabble and writing doggerel using SQL Server. He then issues a SQL challenge.
2009-12-30
3,255 reads
’ll focus on the issues that you need to follow to make sure that you have done everything that you could do to optimize the data access codes you have written or you are going to write in future. The Database Administrators (DBA) also has great roles to play in optimizing and tuning the database performance. But, optimization scopes that fall into a DBA’s area are out of scope for these articles.
2009-12-29
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Auditing is not only used to ensure internal compliance with authorization rules, it is increasingly used to comply with new legal compliance requirements. This article provides a detailed walkthrough for using SQL Server 2008's new inbuilt Audit feature.
2009-12-28
2,590 reads
Learn how to get started working with SQL Azure and migrating SQL Server databases to SQL Azure.
2009-12-24
3,433 reads
The Script Task and Script component are often used by people developing SSIS packages because they are easy to use and now because SSIS could be perceived to be more developer friendly they are very powerful. That being said we should no be using them everywhere.
2009-12-23
3,228 reads
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
3,036 reads
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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