Managing Transaction Logs
A great article that should answer all your questions about the transaction log from MVP Gail Shaw. A must read for all DBAs.
2012-01-03 (first published: 2008-10-31)
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Gail Shaw
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SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Indexing Strategies
Right, I know it’s Friday and everyone’s tired and looking forward to the weekend, but I do need to finish...
2011-11-11
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SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Filtered Indexes
Welcome back to day 2 of Advanced Indexing. Today we’re going to look at a feature that was added in...
2011-11-09
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SQL University: Advanced indexing – Sorting and Grouping
Good day everyone and welcome to another week of SQL University. I know we’re getting close to the end of...
2011-11-07
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24 Hours of PASS Questions
I finally found the time to work through the questions from the 24 Hours of PASS session that I did....
2011-09-27
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Recovery Models
Learn the basics of recovery models in this short article from SQL Server guru and MVP, Gail Shaw.
2011-09-01
7,970 reads
Compiles and recompiles
I want to spend some time over the next few months looking at query compilation and the plan cache, and...
2011-08-16
3,773 reads
All about Execution Plans
Coming to the PASS Summit in October this year? Excellent!
I say excellent, because Grant (blog|twitter) and I are presenting a...
2011-08-09
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SQLSkills Immersion training in London
A wrap up from MVP and expert Gail Shaw on her experiences of training with SQLskills.
2011-07-27
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SQLSkills Immersion training in London
Just short of the winter solstice, I bailed out of a freezing cold Johannesburg for warmer climates; well, actually for...
2011-07-22
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Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
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Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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