Backup Master Database

The story came from a question someone asked me.

Does Master database support full recovery mode?

As I remembered, by default,...

Data Manipulation Language

In this blog post we describe what is Data Manipulation Language (DML) and include this article in our exam guide...

Basic SQL Interview Questions

We decided to add blog post that covers only basic SQL Interview questions and answers. The blog currently provides only...

Speaker Selection for SQLSaturday Orlando-Group #4

We’ve selected 10 speakers so far, today we bring it to a fabulous bakers dozen with three more – all based...

Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysconstraints

This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...

5 Reasons Why I Need To Go To SQLskills Immersion Training

I was thinking about the contest that SQL Sentry is running for a week of SQLskills Immersion Training, and the...

MDX ClosingPeriod and PeriodsToDate

I’ve decided that the best way to spend a day of 104 degree weather is to sit inside and write...

This week’s links on monitoring SQL Server performance

From time to time, I will be posting links that I encountered during the week. This is also one way...

Find the size of Index in SQL Server

As we know, sp_spaceused gives the size of table and index but it gives the sum of size of all...

IOPS verses Throughput – Measuring Performance of Your Storage

Working on a recent consulting job, I was asked to explain the difference in throughput, which is, measured in MB/s...