Trace Flag 3226 - Suppress all successful backups in SQL server error log

SQL server error log contain all information about how a SQL server is running, what is happening and occurring for...

In-Memory OLTP in SQL 2016

With SQL server 2016 around the corner, I would like to share some of my thought on the usage for...

Free learning materials

If you are new to a technology, you might want to have a place to get you started. It would be great if can be free and can guide...

SQL Licensing

Recently, there are lots of questions about SQL licenses, many of them came from the fact that they starting to upgrade to 2012/2014 from their old 2005 servers as...

DR drill - Part 2: Log Shipping

Welcome back to DR drill series!

In the last post (here), we have highlighted a number of ways to setup disaster...

Automatic database restore

Often times database administrators were asked to restore production database backup to UAT or development environment, sometimes it will needed...

Backup Compression - Native vs Redgate

Many of the companies are using third party backup software for SQL server in order to help to reduce their...

Twitter - finally!!

Finally I join Twitter myself, so if you are interested to find me through Twitter, its here.

Script Corner - Date format

Every now and then we will need to convert datetime to string for display, and would you remember all the...

Mentoring starts

Just would like to take a moment to say thank you to Paul Randal, who is busy with his own...