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
4,307 reads
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 Kevin3NF
Everything in SQL Server is waiting for something…this is by design. And most people...
By DataOnWheels
Hey fellow data friends! Wow, March was an absolutely crazy month (in the best...
We value your privacy. This policy explains what personal data we collect and why. What...
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At what levels can we set the collation in SQL Server 2022?
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