TempDB – Relocate the TempDB Database Files
I took control of a new server recently and noticed that Tempdb was not configured to best practice. It was...
2010-03-28
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Gethyn Ellis
SQL Server 2008 Activity Monitor
For those people who like to use the Activity Monitor in the SQL Server Management Studio GUI instead of, or...
2010-03-25
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Managing Your Backup Files
I recently posted a couple of scripts that backup all databases on your SQL Server instance to disk with a...
2010-03-23
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Script: Transaction Log Backup
My last post showed a little script that I use for taking full backups of all my databases on an...
2010-03-21
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Script: Backup All your Databases
We all know the importance of taking regular backups of our SQL Server databases. This is a useful little script...
2010-03-18
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Enabling Filestreaming in SQL Server 2008
This is a short post on enabling file streaming. I have read a few sources that cover the same topic...
2010-03-16
739 reads
Setting Up a Server Side Trace
Recently I wrote a short post on the default trace in SQL Server. You can read that here. In this...
2010-03-14
14,727 reads
Setup Database Snapshot against a Mirrored Database (Part 2)
This post is the second post in my series about Database mirroring. For part one is titled Configuring Database Mirroring...
2010-03-11
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TSQL Tuesday #4: IO
“IO IO, It’s off to disk we go!” was in Mike Walsh’s blog post that introduced this TSQL Tuesday and...
2010-03-09
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Configuring Database Mirroring in SQL Server
I plan on writing a series of posts on database mirroring, this is the first. Database Mirroring is a new...
2010-03-07
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Blogs
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
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Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers