Partitioning Basics – Part 2 – Splitting/Merging Partitions
This post follows on from the previous post Partitioning Basics – Part 1
Let’s have a look at the partitions setup in...
2014-06-12
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Partitioning Basics – Part 1 – Creating Partitions
Partitioned tables can be a quick and efficient way to (amongst other things) archive data. In the next couple of...
2014-06-09 (first published: 2014-06-04)
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Error Log Management
Thought I’d write a quick post about managing error logs within SQL Server. Good error log management is essential for...
2014-05-09
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Database Design Guidelines For Developers
One of the developers that I work with asked me to write a “brief” (really brief) guide on database design....
2014-04-07 (first published: 2014-04-03)
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SQL Server 2014 RTM
The new version of SQL Server will be here on Tuesday.
(Someone at Microsoft has a sense of humour in releasing...
2014-03-30
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Index Fragmentation
So you’ve setup a bunch of indexes in your database to tune the queries coming in. They’re all running much...
2014-03-13
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Who are your victims?
Or….deadlock notifications.
In my previous post I talked about having your own database(s) and what information you could be collecting. One...
2014-02-11
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Your own personal space
Somewhere to relax, get away from it all (by all I mean pesky Developers wanting code deployed on a bleeding...
2014-01-30
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Shutting down multiple servers with Powershell
I’ve recently helped a company move their infrastructure to a new data centre. Part of this involved shutting down a...
2014-01-09
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Hope you all had a good Xmas, ate too much, drank too much and are still telling yourselves...
2014-01-02
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