How to Find Bad Page Splits

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I was working with a friend last week, doing SQL related teaching and tune ups.  Earlier this week I had...

Learn to Use Books Online

One of the first questions I hear from folks wanting to grow in their Microsoft SQL Server DBA or database developer...

The first record on data page.

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I had a recent conversation about data pages. There was some debate about the location of the first record on...

Recovering from out-of-disk space conditions for tempdb

Another potential problem that you need to tackle as a DBA is running out of disk space on the hard...

SQL Server : Lost all Administrator Account in SQL Server and Forgot sa Account Password

What will happen if you lost all your administrator account by mistake ? As per the best practice you have disabled...

What's new in Reporting Services 2012 Free Webinar

We are starting our free monthly webinars with 'What's new in Reporting Services 2012' on Wednesday August 8, 2012 at 12...

SQL Server - Oracle Architectural comparison

This is one of the session I took for SQL DBA to understand the basics of Oracle, Its a powerpoint presentation but...

Initialize a Transactional Replication from a Database Backup

During the last days I’m working on Replication – especially with Transactional Replication. The main idea of Transactional Replication is that...

Initialize a Transactional Replication from a Database Backup

During the last days I'm working on Replication – especially with Transactional Replication.
The main idea of Transactional Replication is that you...

SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (August 2012)

Here is the August 2012 version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements...