Optimise Your Disk Subsystem I/O with An Index File Group and Index Compression

As a DBA who is always seeking solutions to performance bottlenecks, amidst the
daily rituals of validating backups and other regular...

Powershell Add-Type – Where’s That Assembly!

I’ve been working a lot lately with SMO and the differences between the various versions between SQL 2005, 2008, and...

Presenting Tips

Having done a number of presentations, I have accumulated a list of items to go over before each presentation to...

SQL Server Configuration Manager : Cannot connect to WMI provider – Invalid class [0x80041010]

Following error dialog pops up today, when I tried connecting to SQL Server Configuration Manager on my SQL Server 2008...

SQLSaturday #164 Cleveland – Tick tock, people!

If you haven’t already heard, Cleveland is hosting SQLSaturday #164 on August 18.  That date is coming up fast and...

Unable to recycle SQL Agent log: SQLServerAgent Error: 32.

Today the maintenance job that recycles the SQL Agent error log failed on one of our production SQL Server with...

Detecting Database Option Changes with DDL Triggers

One of the keys to managing a large production SQL Server environment is being aware of changes that are taking...

Download: Consolidated Denali a Day – May 2012

Download: Consolidated Denali a Day – May 2012 If you like what’s New in Denali (Sql server 2012) a day, for...

Guest Blog

I was given the opportunity to put together a guest blog post for the MVP blog. I did a little...

New SSIS 2012 Expressions

SSIS 2012 has added a few new expression functions and I thought I’d spend a short time detailing each.

LEFT
The LEFT...