Creating a real-time IT dashboard is essential for IT professionals for managing their environments and to be proactive. A Few months ago, a great tool called ‘PowerShell Universal Dashboard’ or ‘PoshUD’ was officially released. In this article, Nicolas Prigent describes PoshUD, and how to use it to monitor your infrastructure using PowerShell.
2018-05-30
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When databases are being designed and developed, your developers might have overlooked creating clustered indexes on some of your database tables. Having a useful clustered index on your tables will improve the performance of your queries. Here Greg Larsen shows a simple script to identify those tables in your database that don’t have a clustered index.
2018-05-29
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In this article, Robert Cain describes the steps to set up a VM using PowerShell using his PSAzure module.
2018-05-28
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We’ve blogged a couple times about how clustered index key columns get stored in your nonclustered indexes.
But where they get stored is a matter of weird SQL trivia. You see, it depends on how you define your nonclustered index.
2018-05-25
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Do you know when a SQL Server instance restarts? When you manage many SQL Server instances you may not know when one restarts, so having an automated report emailed to you could be helpful to get an idea what's going on for that instance.
2018-05-24
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In the final article of this series, Robert Sheldon shows how to move from a relational structure to a graph structure using the Graph Database feature.
2018-05-23
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Do you have data load processes that drop indexes to optimize the load process? Are you dropping those indexes in one step, then loading data into your table, only to recreate the indexes in a post data load step?
2018-05-22
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Docker continues to make improvements in their products running on Windows. In this article, Nicolas Prigent explains how to share data between Windows containers and the container host. As a bonus, he also shows how to run a Linux container on Windows Server 2016.
2018-05-21
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This guide describes the locking and row versioning mechanisms the SQL Server Database Engine uses to ensure the physical integrity of each transaction and provides information on how applications can control transactions efficiently.
2018-05-18
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One of the truisms of the modern data-driven world is that the velocity and volume of data keeps increasing. We’re seeing more data generated each day than ever before in human history. And nowhere is this rapid growth more evident than in the world of social media, where users generate content at a scale previously unimaginable.
2018-05-17
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By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
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Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
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I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
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