Backup compression using IBM TDP for SQL Server

If you are using SQL Server 2008 enterprise/datacenter edition, or SQL Server 2008 R2 standard or above, you are in...

Enter the 2012 Exceptional DBA of the Year Awards

I was just at SQLRally in Dallas, and I was speaking to a DBA friend of mine over lunch. He...

Create a Filestream Filegroup for Filetables – SQL Server 2012

Once you’ve enabled filestream, the next step is to add a filegroup to your database to hold the filestream data....

PASS Data Architecture VC presents Mike Fal: SQL Server Table Partitioning

Thursday’s (May 17th, 2012) PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter has Mike demonstrating some cool Table Partitioning scripts which I was...

SQL Rally 2012 Recap

Much Learning Was Had By All
SQL Rally 2012 had a diverse group of speakers and something for all levels of...

Data Warehouse vs Data Mart

I see a lot of confusion on what exactly is the difference between a data warehouse and a data mart....

SQL Server – Check SQL Agent Job History using T-SQL

To check SQL Server Agent Job History you can use the Log File Viewer from SQL Server Management Studio.
To Open...

The Effective Permissions Tool is Handy

An recurring issue with Integration Services packages that read or write to file systems is permissions issues.  It's quite difficult to have a package run properly when it can't...

Varied and Interesting Links

Here are some things I’ve run across in the past few weeks you may find interesting:
FailCon. Billed as a one-day...

Denali – Day 14: New DMV & DMF

Denali – Day 14: New DMV & DMF

As there has been so many DMV/DMF already introduced in earlier version of Sql server,...