TempDB – Relocate the TempDB Database Files
I took control of a new server recently and noticed that Tempdb was not configured to best practice. It was...
2010-03-28
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Gethyn Ellis
SQL Server 2008 Activity Monitor
For those people who like to use the Activity Monitor in the SQL Server Management Studio GUI instead of, or...
2010-03-25
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Managing Your Backup Files
I recently posted a couple of scripts that backup all databases on your SQL Server instance to disk with a...
2010-03-23
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Script: Transaction Log Backup
My last post showed a little script that I use for taking full backups of all my databases on an...
2010-03-21
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Script: Backup All your Databases
We all know the importance of taking regular backups of our SQL Server databases. This is a useful little script...
2010-03-18
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Enabling Filestreaming in SQL Server 2008
This is a short post on enabling file streaming. I have read a few sources that cover the same topic...
2010-03-16
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Setting Up a Server Side Trace
Recently I wrote a short post on the default trace in SQL Server. You can read that here. In this...
2010-03-14
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Setup Database Snapshot against a Mirrored Database (Part 2)
This post is the second post in my series about Database mirroring. For part one is titled Configuring Database Mirroring...
2010-03-11
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TSQL Tuesday #4: IO
“IO IO, It’s off to disk we go!” was in Mike Walsh’s blog post that introduced this TSQL Tuesday and...
2010-03-09
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Configuring Database Mirroring in SQL Server
I plan on writing a series of posts on database mirroring, this is the first. Database Mirroring is a new...
2010-03-07
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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