Index Tuning
This week I've been carrying out some performance tuning of some of the more intensive procedures in one of our environments. Using...
2013-03-21 (first published: 2013-03-14)
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SQL Server under source control with Team Foundation Services and Red-Gate Source Control
During the last few years I’ve been involved in database source control management and release plans tasks. These are important...
2013-03-14
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PowerShell Usage in DBA Work — Case Study 3/7
As a DBA, sometimes we may need to demonstrate to some stakeholders when a sql server instance was last rebooted,...
2013-03-14
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Adding a Linked Server with ‘Oracle Provider for OLE DB’ as the provider – Proceed with caution !
Adding a linked server is an easy task which can be done at any point of time. I was under...
2013-03-13
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The Work Life Balance for Men
A great piece by LZ Granderson, and one that really make me stop and think a bit. Work and life...
2013-03-13
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Find missing indexes using SQL Servers index related DMVs
Today, we experienced performance issues with few databases that are hosted on one of our most critical production SQL Server....
2013-03-13
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Retrieving the next or previous element node value in an Xml blob using XQuery
It’s been a little while since I wrote a blog post on my favourite subject but this is from a...
2013-03-20 (first published: 2013-03-13)
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SQL Server 2012 Virtual Lab with Clustering using Hyper-V
After having a great opportunity to attend a Beta course for Hyper-V with Windows 2012 at Learning Tree, I decided...
2013-03-13
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Atlanta MDF Presents Five Pre-Cons to choose from in Atlanta Friday, May 17
SQL Saturday is returning to Atlanta on May 18th at Georgia State University – Alpharetta, 3775 Brookside Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA 30022 The day before the event Atlanta MDF is...
2013-03-13
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Atlanta MDF Presents Five Pre-Cons to choose from in Atlanta Friday, May 17
SQL Saturday is returning to Atlanta on May 18th at Georgia State University – Alpharetta, 3775 Brookside Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA 30022
The...
2013-03-13
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Blogs
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Tell It Once: Setting Up Claude With Skills and MCP Servers
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Many of us use AI the same way every single day. Open a tab....
SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident
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SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident SQL...
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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