The loss of a company's data is often enough to put the company out of business; and yet backup errors are generally avoidable with the application of common sense rather than deep technical knowledge. Grant digs into memories of his long experience of giving forum advice, to come up with the most easily preventable backup errors.
2011-11-29
2,910 reads
How to incorporate data mining directly into the Data Flow of SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services-based packages.
2011-11-28
2,226 reads
SQL Server is used to support many applications and one such feature of most applications is the storage of passwords. Sometimes there is a need to reset a password using a temporary password or generate a random password for a new user. In this tip I cover a simple stored procedure to generate random passwords that can be incorporated into your applications.
2011-11-25
4,497 reads
SQL Server's functions are a valuable addition to T-SQL when used wisely. Jeremiah Peshcka provides a complete and comprehensive guide to scalar functions and table-valued functions, and shows how and where they are best used.
2011-11-24
4,190 reads
SQL Server has produced some excellent High Availability options, but I was looking for an option that would allow me to access my secondary database without it being read-only or in restoring mode. I need the ability to see transactions occur and query the secondary database.
2011-11-23
2,321 reads
There are a number of ways of measuring and identifying I/O-related performance information for your SQL Server database instances.
2011-11-22
3,654 reads
SQL Server has produced some excellent High Availability options, but I was looking for an option that would allow me to access my secondary database without it being read-only or in restoring mode. I need the ability to see transactions occur and query the secondary database.
2011-11-21
3,145 reads
Delivering reports is becoming more critical due to the increasing demand for business intelligence solutions. And while there are a lot of guides that walk us through building a highly available database engine, you’ll rarely see one for SQL Server Reporting Services. How do I go about building a scale-out SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services running on Windows Server 2008 R2?
2011-11-18
1,790 reads
SQL Server 2008 and later offers the ability to create compressed backup files. When creating the compressed backup, how much space is really needed and when does the space get allocated for the backup file?
2011-11-16
2,642 reads
Last month, Phil Factor caused a furore amongst some MVPs with an article that dared to suggest that for reasonably small-scale strategic uses, and with a bit of due care and testing, table variables are a "good thing". Not everyone shared his opinion.
2011-11-15
3,225 reads
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