"malpractice" in IT?
Through most of my career, I believed that at some point I would be able to learn enough and master...
2012-10-23
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Capture Index Usage Statistics for Better Analysis
Starting with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced Dynamic Management Views to help DBAs see what's going inside of SQL Server....
2012-10-23
2,558 reads
Linked Server setup with Oracle
Linked Server
Setup with Oracle in SQL Server:
Suppose you want to access data from
oracle or other database products using T-SQL via...
2012-10-23
2,276 reads
Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Tip: Proof of Concept (POC) Guidelines
As with any other project our objective is to drive PDW POC success! To clear and cultivate the playing field for successful POC engagements, we must, at a minimum,...
2012-10-23
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Tip: Proof of Concept (POC) Guidelines
As with any other project our objective is to drive PDW POC success! To clear and cultivate the playing field...
2012-10-23
1,142 reads
Don’t Be That PASS Summit Guy
Don’t Be That PASS Summit Guy
PASS Summit 2012 Speaker
The SQL PASS Summit 2012 is just around the corner. Every year...
2012-10-22
1,208 reads
Trace Flag 2371 and Statistics
One of the issues that I see published often on forums like SQLServerCentral is the advice to update statistics on...
2012-10-22
9,581 reads
What Happened to rowmodctr from Sysindexes?
In my blog series Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables, I’ve been going through the compatibility views in SQL Server...
2012-10-22
2,597 reads
Clustered Indexes Have Statistics Too
It may seem obvious, but I’ve heard more than one person suggest to me that statistics on a clustered index...
2012-10-22
1,168 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #3
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-22
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Forums
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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