Understanding SQL Server Database Restore Process
Data is a critical asset for an organization to keep information about their customers, inventory, products, purchasing, and financial stocks....
2013-07-15
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SQL Server Database Backups and Recovery Models – (Part 3)
Checkout the part-3 of my three part article series on SQL Server Database Backups and Recovery Modelshere, in which I discussed...
2013-07-15
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SQL Server Database Backups and Recovery Models – (Part 2)
Checkout the part-2 of my three part article series on SQL Server Database Backups and Recovery Modelshere, in which you’ll learn...
2013-07-15
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A Tale of Two Hotels
This is a long and convoluted post about my experiences at two hotels, but it has a point for DBAs...
2013-07-15
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #41
For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of...
2013-07-15
616 reads
New Hebrew SQL Server Podcast
Five months ago, I wrote a post about my love for Podcasts.
At some point, I started to think about starting...
2013-07-15
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SSAS Joining Facts at Different Granularities
In an SSAS cube you sometimes need to connect a dimension at a different granularity than other dimensions. For example,...
2013-07-19 (first published: 2013-07-15)
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Scripting a partitioned table or index, a caution.
I was researching a problem with a partitioned table that had somehow become unpartitioned and discovered something rather interesting.
First here...
2013-07-22 (first published: 2013-07-15)
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SQL Server – SELECTing/Displaying Top N rows from a table
To SELECT only top N rows from a table we can use TOP clause in SELECT statement. Using TOP clause...
2013-07-15
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Check unused index in SQL Sever 2008
Checking for unused indices across your database should also be a part of housekeeping. Usually i would schedule checking for...
2013-07-15
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Checking the Error Log II
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