Database Snapshots – A view of database at a specific point in time
Beginning with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced a new feature called database snaphots, which gives DBAs a way of presenting...
2012-12-11
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Basit's SQL Server Tips
Why SQL Server security matters: A case study
Database technologies are an essential component of many information systems because they store a large amount of sensitive corporate data...
2012-12-02
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XML Support and SQL Server
Checkout my article here, in which I discussed the fundamentals of XML technologies.
This article is published on SSWUG.org.
2012-12-02
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Planning for ETL solution
Checkout my article here, in which I talked about the basic steps that are requried to plan an successful ETL...
2012-12-02
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How to migrate a SQL Server database to a lower version
Problem
After recently upgrading a SQL Server instance to SQL Server 2012 a few days ago, you noticed that your application...
2012-11-15
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SQL Server 2012 Installation Guide
Reblogged from Basit's SQL Server Tips:
This article walks the user through installation of SQL Server 2012 on a Windows Server...
2012-11-11
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SQL Server Database Consolidation
The database expansion costs money, not just software licenses. It costs money in maintenance and hardware, and also impacting businesses...
2012-11-11
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SQL Server Service Broker error database cannot be enabled
Problem
The SQL Server Database Engine returns the following error message after a service broker enabled database is restored to the...
2012-10-24
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Getting Started with Partially Contained Databases
Before SQL Server 2012, when we move or restore databases to a different SQL Server instance, then any logins associated...
2012-10-24
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SQL Server Locking Overview
Locking is a necessary part of transaction processing when working in a multi-user Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) environment. You use...
2012-10-21
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Blogs
A Small LLM Fail
By Steve Jones
Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely
Unused Indexes in SQL Server: Find them, vet them, and drop them safely Indexes are...
T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
SSIS packages failing with a status "ended unexpectedly" (SSL/TLS timeout ?)
We have an issue where SSIS packages are failing with a status of "ended...
SQL Newbie HELP: The query references an object that is not supported in distr..
Hi everyone! I'm new to SQL and am trying to query a view (dbo.)...
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