Handling Inconvenient Requests
Brad gives a little guidance on how you might want to respond to inconvenient requests with an eye on doing yourself a favor.
2018-08-02 (first published: 2009-12-07)
332 reads
Brad McGehee
How To Recondition Batteries
These days we are all looking for ways to save money and even to help the
environment. If you came across this site you are most...
2018-04-24
7 reads
Online T-SQL Scripts and Copyright
The issue of copyright for online scripts is a grey area. If a script is published without any form of copyright notice, most people assume that it is freely available for reuse. It's not necessarily the case.
2016-11-25 (first published: 2009-04-20)
543 reads
Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans
Brad's Sure Guide to Maintenance Plans shows you how to use the Maintenance Plan Wizard and Designer to configure and schedule eleven core database maintenance tasks, ranging from integrity checks, to database backups, to index reorganizations and rebuilds.
2013-08-26
8,048 reads
How to Become an Exceptional DBA, 2nd Edition
Brad McGehee provides a "career guide" for DBAs. It is intended both to help prospective DBAs find a "way in" to the profession, and to advise existing DBAs on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.
2013-08-26
11,381 reads
Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008 has hundreds of new features and improvements for Production DBAs, Developer DBAs, and Business Intelligence specialists…in this book I focus on what I thought were the ten most important new features for Production DBAs.
2013-04-11
14,050 reads
Mastering SQL Server Profiler
SQL Server Profiler can troubleshoot a wide range of SQL Server issues, such as poorly-performing queries, locking and blocking, excessive table/index scanning, and a lot more. Brad's book will allow you to master the use of this versatile tool.
2013-03-15
19,269 reads
SQLServerCentral Best Practices Clinic: Part 1
We exposed the SQLServerCentral cluster for monitoring with SQL Monitor. Just like other companies, we have constraints on resources, and we have more work that needs to be done. Help us configure SQLServerCentral’s database servers with your suggestions on what is the highest priority for a website database back end.
2012-12-25 (first published: 2011-03-07)
22,738 reads
Southwest Missouri SQL Server Users Group to Have First Meeting in October
The Southwest Missouri SQL Server Users Group (SWMOSSUG) is dedicated to providing SQL Server Education and Career Guidance for IT...
2012-08-29
1,780 reads
At the End of One Chapter and the Beginning of a New Chapter
I have been told by hundreds of DBAs that I have the best DBA job in the world as Director...
2012-08-15
1,089 reads
Blogs
Custom deployment parameters in Azure Data Factory - Forget Me Not
By Rayis Imayev
(2020-Sep-26) Last week one of my Azure Data Factory (ADF) deployment pipelines failed with an...
VMworld 2020 – Top 10 Database Sessions (Part 2)
By kleegeek
Whether you are a SQL Server Database Administrator, Infrastructure Architect, or any other member...
Daily Coping 25 Sep 2020
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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