It is not uncommon to experience the occasional slow down of a SQL Server database. A poorly designed database or a system that is improperly configured for the workload are but several of many possible causes of this type of performance problem.
2007-11-22
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What can't be fixed by CHECKDB? Read this great entry from the former SQL Server Storage Engine lead.
2007-11-21
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This handy control gives you everything you need to control how users input usernames, passwords, select servers, and choose connection types.
2007-11-20
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This article, the second in a series, discusses what items could be contained in the enterprise architecture and touches briefly on how to organize the objects.
2007-11-20
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The Declarative Management Framework is a new policy based management framework included with the upcoming SQL Server 2008. Using this feature administrators can define policies to govern their SQL Server environments much like in the Windows environment. This article, written based on the SQL Server "Katmai" July CTP introduces you to the DMF and shows you how you can perform policy management.
2007-11-19
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Robyn and Phil return with some fresh ideas about how to import text files into SQL Server, without resorting to DTS or SSIS scripting. They go on to show how much can be done in TSQL
2007-11-19
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This article looks at fuzzy testing and how to build a provider for your own use.
2007-11-16
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As part of your performance audit, you will need to examine each database located on each of your SQL Server instances and examine some basic database settings.
2007-11-16
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Brad McGehee discusses the career path of a professional database administrator. Often the DBA role is thrust upon an IT professional or developer without much in the way of specific training. Growing into the role is largely a self-motivated exercise. Brad talks about the habits that successful DBAs have, focused on on-going education and working to protect their organizations data.
2007-11-15
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Learn one of the techniques for calculating percentiles with SQL Server 2005 using the new SQL Server Common Table Expression and the latest ROW_NUMBER function.
2007-11-15
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Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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