If you are relying on using 'best-practice' percentage-based thresholds when you are creating an index maintenance plan for a SQL Server that checks the fragmentation in your pages, you may miss occasional 'edge' conditions on larger tables that will cause severe degradation in performance. It is worth being aware of patterns of data access in particular tables when judging the best threshold figure to use.
2012-03-14
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I have transactional replication configured in production. The business team has a requirement to rename the subscription database. Is it possible to rename the subscription database and ensure that transactional replication will continue to function as before? If so, how could we achieve this?
2012-03-13
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Developers targeting the SQL Azure platform should make sure their applications are secure. This article walks through the considerations developers need to keep in mind when designing SQL Azure applications.
2012-03-12
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There are a number of ways that you can incorporated variables into your SSIS Scripts. Robert Sheldon demonstrates how.
2012-03-09
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In order to use your normal Windows login and your admin login to connect to SQL Server using SSMS you need to use the "Run as" feature. What do you do in the case of Windows 7 or Windows Vista where you can’t find the Run As Different User option?
2012-03-08
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Under the pseudonym of 'SwePeso', Peter Larsson is famous on SQL forums for the amazing performance he can get from SQL. How does he do it? In the first of a series of articles, Peter explains his secrets.
2012-03-05
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When you are using SSIS, there soon comes a time when you are confronted with having to do a tricky task such as searching for particular connection strings in all your SSIS packages, or checking the execution history of scheduled SSIS jobs. You can do this type of work effectively in T-SQL as Feodor Georgiev explains.
2012-03-02
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In this tip we cover what CONTROL SERVER is, how to detect its use and a possible way to exploit this permission.
2012-03-01
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SQL Server 2012 brings new security enhancements, one of which is to create user defined server roles, which simplifies instance wide administration and helps to increase the security of the instance by letting you define different groups with different sets of permissions as per their role and responsibilities.
2012-02-29
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Phil Factor demonstrates how to generate T-SQL scripts for databases, selected database objects, or table contents from PowerShell and SMO.
2012-02-28
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Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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