The role of the DBA is evolving! With automated builds, cloud and DevOps being the new A,B,C,Ds in the day to day management of databases, you need to up-skill and learn about Database Reliability Engineering. Join Microsoft MVP Hamish Watson to find out more.
2020-04-06
Database DevOps means accurate and consistent data which is critical for analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
2020-04-06
Smart DBAs automate tasks whenever possible. In this article, Greg Moore shows the need to use caution when using undocumented procedures for automating tasks, and that PowerShell may have what you need instead.
2020-04-03
Say we have a stored procedure that has two queries in it, the first query will always get the same plan, but the second query will get different plans and return different numbers of rows depending on which reputation we pass in.
2020-04-02
You’re new at this working from home thing, and you’re trying to put Game of Thrones up on a second monitor while you work? Listen, that’s not gonna play out well. You’re gonna get distracted and you’re not gonna get any work done. Instead, if you’re gonna have something in the background, learn about SQL Server.
2020-04-01
There is no good reason for having ANSI_PADDING set to OFF when you create tables in SQL Server. It was provided purely for legacy databases that had code that assumed the old CHAR behavior for dealing with padding, and its use has now been deprecated.
2020-04-01
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Phil Factor provides a powerful DOS batch script which, when coupled with SQL Compare CLI, allows you to build databases from source, during development, and fill them with the specific datasets required for testing.
2020-03-31
In this tip we cover a T-SQL script that allows you to batch delete older data from tables and save the deleted records to an archive table.
2020-03-31
In this presentation we’ll discuss the aspects of data automation and focus on the central goal of extracting the data that is locked in several operational systems, normalizing it to the enterprise's standards and sharing it with the business.
2020-03-30
How to use RAISERROR() in T-SQL to send annotations to SQL Monitor, so you can observe the direct impact of application tasks, or server changes, on the SQL Server metrics.
2020-03-30
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If I create a multiple column Primary Key constraint, what is the most number of bytes I can include in the constraint?
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