Relational Types.
As I try to drag my team (sometimes with resistance, sometimes with pleasure) into the world of relational principles, I...
2010-12-23
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Blogs
Should I have AutoGrowth enabled on my SQL Server Database
I was reading a few forum posts yesterday where a few people were complaining that the transaction log had grown...
2010-12-22
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Viewing RING_BUFFER_OOM Errors
Onion Ring Buffer?
A client asked a co-worker to take a look at a query for reviewing RING_BUFFER_OOM messages in sys.dm_os_ring_buffers. ...
2010-12-21
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Can You Dig It? – Missing Indexes
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittWhen I started using XQuery to dig into the plan cache, it was just searching...
2010-12-20
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Notes from Mirroring Deep Dive Session with Mohammed Sharaf: Microsoft Premier Engineer (I can never learn enough about Mirroring :)
One thing I have gotten wrong before, or not elaborated on before in presentations on mirroring, although Roman Rehak mentioned...
2010-12-16
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Do IF statements cause recompiles?
I heard this one over at SSC a while back. “Avoid IF statements in stored procedures as they result in...
2010-12-15
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Can You Dig It? – Parallelism in the Plan Cache
Sharon PruittIn the lead in to this post, I talked about how the plan cache can...
2010-12-14
938 reads
What’s Going on with SQL Server Service Account Changes?
For years we’ve been told you should use Enterprise Manager in SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server Configuration Manager in...
2010-12-13
3,196 reads
Facebook and E-Mail Security for a New Teenager
Cross-posted from a Goal Keeping DBA blog:
Just recently, my oldest son entered the ranks of the teenagers. I shouldn’t actually...
2010-12-10
2,038 reads
Giving Back, SQLMeetings.com Is Going Live Soon
I’ve been pretty quite since the PASS Summit and with good reason. Every year we have a chapter leader meeting....
2010-12-10
618 reads
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...
Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog
By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item No More Deadlocks
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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