SQL Server Live! is coming to Orlando November 18-22. SQL Server Live! provides comprehensive education and knowledge share on SQL Server database management, data warehouse/BI model design, performance tuning, troubleshooting and more.
2013-09-26
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MidnightDBA and Red Gate have joined together to produce a new book on SQL Server, written by 15 first-time authors. The resulting book, TribalSQL, includes everything you should know about SQL Server that isn’t taught in traditional training, they call it Tribal knowledge.
2013-09-19
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Join us at SQL Saturday Denver on September 28. SQL Saturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This SQL Saturday includes a number of options for pre-conference training in Denver, including a free session presented by Steve Jones.
2013-09-18
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM BST. Steve Jones will be your host to introduce Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVP and Product Evangelist at Red Gate Software.
This webinar will take you through the best practices, standards and methods that you can employ to ensure that you have solid backup processes for the databases under your charge. You’ll also learn how to restore, because your backups are only good if you can restore them. Grant will show you how using Red Gate’s SQL Backup Pro and SQL Virtual Restore can make all this easier and more efficient.
2013-09-18 (first published: 2011-05-23)
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This metric measures the percentage of free space for transaction log files (LDF files). You’ll find this useful if your SQL Server has limited capacity, so you need to maximize existing disk space utilization by minimizing unused space. It will also alert you if the amount of free space drops below the specified thresholds.
2013-09-17
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SQLSaturday #228 Cambridge is a training event for SQL Server professionals, Business Intelligence and SQL Server Developers and those just wanting to learn more about SQL Server. This event will consist of a pre-conference day on the 27th September and a free community day on the 28th September 2013.
2013-09-16
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Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking on September 21 in Providence Rhode Island. Featured speakers include Paresh Motiwala, Wayne Sheffield, and Jason Brimhall.
2013-09-12
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This fall SQLskills is running the SQL track at SQLIntersection, with an amazing lineup of speakers and sessions. Join Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp in Las Vegas for the event, Oct 28-30.
2013-09-12
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Join SQL Saturday San Diego for a free day of SQL Server training and networking on September 21st. There will also be a free SQL in the City Session on the 20th presented by Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey.
2013-09-11
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In this Webinar on Tuesday September 12, Louis Davidson will explain the differences between good and bad database design. He'll discuss characteristics such as comprehendible, documented, secure, well performing, and normalized (naturally). Register to come along.
2013-09-11
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I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers