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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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
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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Disaster Recovery Planning
As a SQL Server DBA it is absolutely vital you regularly take backups of the databases you look after. If...
2013-11-26
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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