Automate Sliding Window Partition Maintenance: Part III
Part 3 of Hugh Scott's series on automating sliding window partitions in SQL Server using PowerShell
2014-03-21 (first published: 2010-12-28)
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Hugh Scott
Automate Sliding Window Partition Maintenance: Part II
Part 2 of a series on how to automate partition management. In this article learn how easy managing and maintaining a sliding window partition scheme can be with PowerShell.
2014-03-14 (first published: 2010-12-21)
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Automate Sliding Window Partition Management: Part I
A new series on how you can automate partition management and administration. Hugh Scott explains how this technique helps him manage large deletes.
2014-03-07 (first published: 2010-12-14)
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Automate Range Right Partition Management with Powershell (Part II)
In the last script, we covered removing the trailing partition in a Range Right, date valued partition. This script adds a new (empty) partition to the partition scheme.
2010-11-12 (first published: 2009-12-17)
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Automate Range Right Partition Management with PowerShell
This script automatically splits a partitioned table, merges the partition function and then drops the associated file group for the partition.
2010-11-11 (first published: 2009-12-17)
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Extracting Logins From SQL Server
This script will help you transfer logins between one instance of SQL and another.
2010-11-08 (first published: 2010-01-07)
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2006-09-04
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SQLAnswers Review
How many of you using SQL Server 2000 have the need to send email from SQL Server? How many of you hate Outlook? Here is a software package that can send not only HTML, but PDF as well and through SMTP. Read Hugh Scott's review and thoughts on this product.
2005-09-22
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A SAN Primer
Storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, which means that more and more SQL Server servers will be incorporating SAN storage as an architecture moving forward. It seems that most DBAs, however, have never worked with this technology. New author Hugh Scott brings us a primer on this Storage Area Networks for DBAs new to this technology.
2005-06-22
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