Recap of our SQL Saturday #225 in Kosovo, Prishtina

SQL Saturday Kosovo #225, happened last week and I’m very happy that we did for the first time in Balkan...

How to Size the SQL Server Memory & Why is it important?

The following blog post has 2 objectives.

 1) How to size the memory correctly ( or atleast being close to correctly )
 2)...

Security Questions: Difference between sysadmin and CONTROL SERVER Permission

As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’sTraining on the T’s, I...

Looking for Buried Treasure in the Transaction Log

Lately, I’ve been finding more and more reasons to look in the transaction log for investigative purposes. Questions come up...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #34

For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of...

The 2013 SQL in the City Tour

Once again, Red Gate is planning on a tour of the US for the SQL in the City events. Last...

Bulk Insert Task SSIS – Path Specified Cannot be Found or File Does Not Exist

When using the Bulk insert task in SSIS, you might encounter an error stating that The File Does Not Exist...

Use Lookups the right Way

SSIS Lookup tasks are all too easy to abuse as they are easy to setup and not really think about...

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Have you configured Database Mail to utilize multiple SMTP Accounts ?

Lets start discussing about this subject by closely looking at the term Redundancy.  What is redundancy all about ?
Wikipedia defines redundancy as “In engineering, redundancy is the...