With Halloween so near, we thought it would be a good time to find out more about the so-called Scary DBA, Grant Fritchey, who's been working in IT for 20 years now. He writes for SQL Server Central, Simple-Talk and SQL Server Standard, and was awarded MVP status earlier this year. We sent Richard Morris to meet him.
2009-11-19
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We asked Phil Factor to write a nice simple quick-start guide about aggregation, pivoting and un-pivoting techniques. To do so, he takes us all the way from getting the data from a published source, transferring it to SQL Server, un-pivoting it, storing it in a relational table, aggregating it and finally pivoting the data in a variety of ways.
2009-11-18
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Most SQL Server DBAs have questions about how to detach and attach a FILESTREAM enabled databases. In this tip, we will take a look at the steps Database Administrators need to follow in order to detach and attach a FILESTREAM database once Data, Log and FILESTREAM container files have been moved from the default location to a new location. This tip includes a general explanation of the FILESTREAM technology introduced with SQL Server 2008. This is followed by examples and scripts to detach and attach FILESTREAM enabled database in your environment.
2009-11-17
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Having concluded our discussion of Reporting Services in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we now begin an examination of Full Text Indexing and Search.
2009-11-16
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In your development environment if you have locked down permissions for developers, but still need them to execute stored procedures you will need to grant execute rights each time a new stored procedure is generated. In this tip I will show you a way of doing this automatically each time a new stored procedure is created without granting your developers additional permissions.
2009-11-13
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SQL Azure is very similar to traditional SQL Server and now supports many standard TSQL commands. This article demonstrates the use of TSQL commands to create SQL Azure objects.
2009-11-12
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In SQL Server 2008 one can store BLOBs (e.g. Images, video, Word, Excel, PDF, MP3, etc) in the NTFS file system rather than in a database file. This can be done by using the new FILESTREAM feature which was introduced in SQL Server 2008. In this tip we will take a look at some of the best practices which a database administrator can follow to get the best performance when using the FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008.
2009-11-11
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FxCop is a useful tool for analyzing code to highlight potential issues and deviations from best practise. To fully utilize to power of FxCop, custom rules can be added to the inbuilt rules that ship with FxCop.
2009-11-10
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Recently, I was at a conference, and I heard the following discussion about what a data warehouse was. One person suggested that a data warehouse was really all the old legacy systems connected by software that could access the data. By calling such a contraption a data warehouse, the organization could avoid having to do the hard and complex work of integration. There are so many problems with this federated approach to a data warehouse that they are almost not worth repeating here. But (once again!) here goes.
2009-11-09
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The conclusion of our coverage of the Reporting Services component available in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition discusses systematizing the troubleshooting approach by focusing specifically on performance problems (as opposed to those impacting functionality).
2009-11-06
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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