Using MSX and TSX to scale out your maintenance plans
For our front office alone, I manage about 15-20 SQL database servers. Add to that other database servers that I...
2013-07-30
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Blog Posts
A Long Summer Vacation
Based on a bit of luck/happenstance I’ve been able to stretch my summer vacation to two months. I had planned...
2013-07-29
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Azure for Prototyping and Development
Psssttt!
Developers. Man, have I got something good for you.
Are your DBAs slowing down your development processes? Are they keeping you...
2013-07-29
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Benchmark Your SQL Server Instance with DVDStore
Have you ever wanted to know how fast one of your core SQL Servers are running, or ever wanted to...
2013-07-29
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Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” this Wednesday, July 31st, at 10pm EST for...
2013-07-29
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Custom Coding in SQL Report Services
Reporting Services 2008 is a very powerful tool for creating reports. It contains many different tools and even allows you...
2013-07-29
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Debugging Issues With Log4Net Not Logging
When you find log4net is not writing anything to your logs it can be a pain to debug as obviously...
2013-07-29
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Encourage Someone You Respect To Run For The PASS Board of Directors
PASS is accepting candidate applications for the 2013 election through August 7th, 2013. Later this year we – the PASS membership...
2013-07-29
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Free Ebooks! Free Ebooks!
There’s a lot to smile on a cool Monday like this. One, it’s 27C outside here in Singapore, a lot...
2013-07-29
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #43
Weekly round-up of the links that I tweet out number 43. As an introduction, if you follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know...
2013-07-29
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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