How to Install Azure Data Studio to Work with SQL Server
Brent shows us how to Install Azure Data Studio to Work with SQL Server.
2020-08-05
Brent shows us how to Install Azure Data Studio to Work with SQL Server.
2020-08-05
You’ve heard that shrinking a database is bad because it introduces both external and internal fragmentation, it causes blocking, it causes transaction log growth while it runs, and it’s slow and single-threaded. You understand that if it’s just a matter of 10-20-30% of a database, and the database is only 100-200GB, you might as well just leave the space there, because you’re gonna end up using it anyway.
2020-07-29
Keeping SQL Server instances patched can be a time-consuming task for DBAs. In this article, Alejandro Cobar explains how he created a service in Azure that anyone can use to retrieve the build information for SQL Server.
2020-07-08
In this article in the storage series, Robert Sheldon explains infrastructure options that simplify administration and improve resource utilization. He discusses the differences and benefits of converged, hyperconverged, and composable infrastructures.
2020-06-25
In this article in the series, Robert Sheldon provides a deep dive into HDDs.
2020-03-09
Today Kendra talks about two of the online options used when working with indexes.
2020-01-14
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Accelerated Database Recovery is new with SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database and used to decrease the time for rolling back large operations and database recovery. In this article, Forrest McDaniel explains how it works.
2019-12-12
You can use SQL Audit to record changes to security, access to tables, and more to help you meet compliance requirements. In this article, Joshua Feierman explains how to set up the audit and collect the data in Azure Log Analytics when running SQL Server in an Azure VM.
2019-09-26
Many of you reading this will be responsible in some way for managing a system. This might be a test/development system or a production one, but often you want to know how well the system is working. Or maybe you want to know if the system is working at all. Even developers care if their […]
2019-06-19
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As a part of SQL Server production support and day to day tasks we usually come across situations where we get requests to run a T-SQL script against multiple servers. Sometimes the request is to not only to run the script, but save the output too
2019-05-31
By Will Assaf
I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft...
Database administrators (DBAs) are the backbone of data-driven organizations. If you're looking to break...
By Brian Kelley
Another security fundamentals topic is authentication versus authorization. For those who have a clear...
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I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file?
BACKUP DATABASE HerdofTwo TO DISK = 'HerdOfTwo_20240501'See possible answers