DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 10
This is a continuation of my DBA in Space journal.
Alien Brad is not looking very well (more boils), or very...
2011-12-02
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Blog Posts
MythBusting–“Table variables have no statistics”
Ok, as myths go, its a pretty weak one. In fact, it is true, this whitepaper explicitly states that. But...
2011-12-02
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Now to End of Year
My friend Steve Jones posted Shutting Down for a Week and in that he talked about doing too much, trying...
2011-12-02
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Re-blog – November 25 – December 1
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2011-12-02
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Installation Step by Step Guide - Saving System Admins, DBAs, Developers and Support Technicians A Wee Bit O' Misery
I've uploaded to SkyDrive a complete step by step guide for a SQL Server 2008 R2 installation because I prefer...
2011-12-02
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”) Licensing
Microsoft has posted the licensing for SQL Server 2012. It has simplified licensing: SQL Server 2012 will offer two licensing...
2011-12-02
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System Reserved Partition and monitoring
On Windows 2008 R2 , a System Reserved Partition is created. It is 100 MB and acts as a preparatory step...
2011-12-02
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With A Little Bit of Care, You Can Use the DMVs to Auto-Create Some Missing Indexes, Here Is How (but with Caveats)
An Automagic Index Creation Script? No, but a start to deal with Missing IndexesHere's the useful join from a number...
2011-12-02
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Workarounds for SSRS 2008 Font rendering issue
Problem
A report developed using SSRS 2008 either through Visual Studio 2010 or BIDS 2008 does not renders properly when viewed...
2011-12-02
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Database Mirroring In A Windows Workgroup
Database Mirroring is a popular high availability solution and low-cost alternative to clustering, especially for smaller shops who can't afford...
2011-12-01
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
Forums
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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