July Question: If you could pick your manager, what ideal qualities would he or she have?
I think all of us have had poor, good, and great managers at one time or another in our career....
2012-07-02
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I think all of us have had poor, good, and great managers at one time or another in our career....
2012-07-02
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Reprinted from my editorial in the Simple-Talk Newsletter.
It’s hard to believe, but it was five years ago that Red Gate Software...
2012-06-18 (first published: 2012-06-11)
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With the introduction of the instance-level option “optimize for ad hoc workloads” in SQL Server 2008, DBAs have a tool to deal with a problem known as plan cache pollution, or plan cache bloat. It’s often caused when one-time use ad hoc queries are sent to SQL Server from Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) solutions, such as LINQ, NHibernate, or Entity Framework. The problem can prevent SQL Server from using its available memory optimally, potentially hurting performance.
2012-06-14
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When I was a novice DBA, I spent little time documenting my SQL Servers. But as I became more experienced,...
2012-06-12 (first published: 2012-06-05)
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Dynamic Management Objects (DMVs and DMFs) are some of the most useful tools for the DBA. So this month’s question...
2012-06-01
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If you haven’t heard yet, Red Gate Software is sponsoring a six city tour of the United States of its...
2012-06-01 (first published: 2012-05-29)
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As we have done for the last several years, SQLServerCentral.com will be offering its own track at SQL Server Connections...
2012-05-24 (first published: 2012-05-21)
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Forget what you thought you knew about SQL Server certification, as Microsoft has completely redesigned the SQL Server 2012 certification program, making is more difficult, costly, and time-consuming to attain.
2012-05-21
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Reprinted from my Database Weekly editorial.
Forget what you thought you knew about SQL Server certification, as Microsoft has completely redesigned...
2012-05-21
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I was just at SQLRally in Dallas, and I was speaking to a DBA friend of mine over lunch. He...
2012-05-14
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By Steve Jones
I’m heading to Boston next week for SQL Saturday Boston 2023. I went to...
By Steve Jones
We’ve been doing some events as part of the Redgate Roadshow, and at one...
By James Serra
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data...
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