SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Enhancements
My first article in SQL Server Pro magazine has been published. It is entitled “SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Enhancements”...
2013-03-28
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Security: People Are the Weakest Link
There was an interesting conversation on Twitter today about security awareness and why the training so often fails. From my perspective, here's...
2013-04-05 (first published: 2013-03-28)
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@LearningTree: SQL Server High Availability
Learning Tree are offering their 3 day SQL Server High Availability course this April in London. Running between 17th and...
2013-03-28
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SQLTreeo – Migration of extended properties to local storage
New SQLTreeo version introduced local storage option when your folders are stored to file system as structure of files and...
2013-03-28
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Network Packet Size: to Fiddle With or Not to Fiddle With
A network pipeline isn’t nearly as pleasant to look at as the oil pipeline (or anything) in Alaska, but it’s...
2013-03-27
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The DBA Team #1–Code and Slides
Our first DBA Team event, in Richmond, VA just before SQL Saturday #187 went well. Overall I think our experiment...
2013-03-27
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XQuery
In 2005 version of SQL Server, XQuerying was introduced. It’s a powerful feature and when used together with a CTE,...
2013-03-27
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What to Do When You Can't Wipe an Infected System
When it comes to workstations within most organizations, the solution when one gets infected is to wipe it and re-image...
2013-03-27
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Six top SQL Server 2012 management tools you should know about
Management tools play a vital role in enterprise database management. This is because the well-integrated tools extend the administrator’s capabilities,...
2013-03-26
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SQL Server: Purging msdb History Tables to Control msdb Database Growth
From time to time, I see the following question posted on various SQL Server forums by different users asking why...
2013-03-26
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