Tips to avoid deadlocks?

A database server should be able to service requests from a large number of concurrent users. When a database server...

Jacksonville IT Pro Camp

Join system administrators and IT professionals for the Jacksonville IT Pro Camp on Saturday, June 16th, 2012.
IT Pro Camps are...

SQL Server Service Broker Explained

What is Service Broker?
Service Broker is a native SQL Server implementation of message queues.

What are message queues?
Message queues are a...

Investment for DBA Career

As IT professionals, we all will consider and take actions, at some point of time, to “invest” in our careers....

Max Server Memory

Sakthivel Chidambaram recently created a calculator which can find out the max server memory value based on the input.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlsakthi/archive/2012/05/19/cool-now-we-have-a-calculator-for-finding-out-a-max-server-memory-value.aspx

you can...

Are you ready?

I have talked about wanting a change. I thought I am prepared to embrace that change when it finally comes.
I...

I’m Going on Tour

I’ve done quite a bit of speaking over the last few years, which has required a lot of travel. I...

June Question: Which DMV(s) do you most often use when managing your SQL Server instances, and why?

Dynamic Management Objects (DMVs and DMFs) are some of the most useful tools for the DBA. So this month’s question...

Ottawa In the Summer Time

I wrote a post earlier this week telling you all about my trip to Ottawa last week, during my trip...

Setup windows firewall for SQL Server

On Windows 2008 R2, the windows firewall will turn on by default which causes connection issure for the remote client, here...