Agile Development – A DBA’s Initial Thoughts
I recently had the opportunity to attend a three day Agile development workshop. At a very high level, Agile development...
2015-08-26
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I recently had the opportunity to attend a three day Agile development workshop. At a very high level, Agile development...
2015-08-26
609 reads
If we could take a picture of the HA solutions currently offered in SQL Server, database mirroring would be the...
2015-08-27 (first published: 2015-08-18)
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Most database professional recognize they have a good career path, and mostly enjoy the work they do. It’s possible to cross the...
2015-08-11
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If you’ve been a DBA for more than a day, you probably have a pretty good idea of what a...
2015-08-04
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SQL Server has the ability to monitor both server and database level events via the SQL Server Audit feature. Audited...
2015-08-06 (first published: 2015-07-28)
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Your servers are either provisioned or racked, your sys admin has taken care of installing the Failover Clustering feature and...
2015-05-25
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I recently was involved in a discussion about whether or not to enable the ‘Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads’ server...
2015-05-19
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Last week, I took the 70-461: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 exam. I decided recently to try and achieve getting...
2015-05-12
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The run-time metric gets all the love, and for good reason. It’s easily witnessed by end users and the one...
2015-04-29
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I haven’t been at this blogging thing an extremely long time, and I certainly haven’t been as consistent as I’ve...
2015-03-24
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Resumes have been on my mind a lot recently. I’ve been thinking that I...
By Steve Jones
Outside of coping tips, I’m gonna take a break from blogging. I’ve been aiming...
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Hello, hope someone can help, maybe a simple question so i am using the...
(1) Sort rows with year column and month column == Jan, Feb, Mar, etc....
Hi, I have this list of training courses: Course_Code|Description 1 |Health and Safety 2...