Webinar: Presenting to the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter
In this Webinar, Prakash will walk you through design considerations, accompanied with a script demo using PowerShell to generate a...
2014-10-20
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Minion Reindex arrives this Friday!
Edit: Minion Reindex has arrived, and it’s getting fantastic notes! The MidnightDBA team is announcing the release of a new,...
2014-10-20
1,142 reads
SQL Server Security Benchmarks
If you’re not familiar with the Center for Internet Security, here’s the organization’s mission statement:
The Mission of the Center for...
2014-10-20
885 reads
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #105
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-10-20
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Add Database File on Database invloved in DB Mirroring
Database Mirroring works on transaction logs. It applies transaction logs from Principle to Mirror. But Operation like addition of file...
2014-10-30 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Database Lifecycle Management
There are lots of people who talk about Application Lifecycle Management. But, the database is a major part of every...
2014-10-31 (first published: 2014-10-20)
7,001 reads
Update to “The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.”
I certainly hadn’t planned on creating a part two of my post on clustered index columns but in the comments...
2014-10-29 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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SQL Server TABLESAMPLE
Using TABLESAMPLE in SQL Server
SQL Server has several ways for you to limit the number of records returned from a...
2014-10-28 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Reducing the size of the distribution database & improving transactional replication performance: Part 3
Part 1 of this series of articles looked at the intricacies of SQL Server transactional replication, and made the observation that the...
2014-10-27 (first published: 2014-10-20)
6,844 reads
Be Careful! Backups Can Bite You!
Here is a riddle for you…
You are requested to move a database from an old server to a new server....
2014-10-24 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Blogs
A New Word: Semaphorism
By Steve Jones
semaphorism – n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on...
SQL Server Linux Container Images Got Smaller: Image Size and Startup Time Across Cumulative Updates
This week I was at PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, and I attended...
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
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Question of the Day
Adding Bits I
I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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