SQL Server Storage best practices
Server storage is one of the most important things for SQL Server performance. Chances to utilize a lot of RAM and...
2015-07-09
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Forrards Group Database Blog
Pros and Cons of Switching to Database Managed Services
What are exactly Database Managed Services?
The term is widely used and covers so many things simultaneously, so it is hard...
2015-07-07
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10 Best Advices to Choose an SQL Consulting Firm
Managing SQL Server can be exhausting, so more and more companies today choose either to delegate this task to some...
2015-07-06
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SQL Server transactional replication performance tuning and optimization
If you`re using transactional replication on SQL Server platform on rather large and data intensive environment you may have faced...
2015-07-02
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How to bulk enable or disable SQL Server agent jobs ?
It often happens that you need to disable or enable all jobs in SQL Server Agent in one shot. Script...
2015-06-22
2,316 reads
SQL Azure pricing
Form the first glance it may seem to be complicated to calculate price of hosting your database on Azure SQL. We`re simplifying this...
2015-06-17
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Hints on choosing a remote database support service
Databases today are the heart of any business. Holding literally tons of information they indirectly are responsible for managing personnel,...
2015-06-17
565 reads
10 Things a Database Design Company Should Do
Database design is a complex industry involving many technologies, software and specialists. The term “design” is a little bit misleading...
2015-06-11
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Blogs
SQL Blunders: Stop Writing These Pointless Queries & Write Smarter!
They run, they return data. So what? Some SQL queries just waste your time...
Copilot Outside of SSMS Seems to Work
By Steve Jones
I read Brent’s first look at SSMS and Copilot in there. He didn’t have...
A New Word: Falesia
By Steve Jones
falesia– n. the disquieting awareness that someone’s importance to you and your importance to...
Forums
Question about updating statistics
We have very large tables in our database, some even more 1 B records,...
What tool or tools do people like for monitoring SQL servers?
I have a few tools at my disposal but none of them seems like...
Question of the Day
A Basic Data API Builder ADD
What parameters are required for the dab add command in the Data API Builder?
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