Simple Steps in SQL Change Automation Scripting
Phil Factor demonstrates the bare essentials of SC...
2019-05-22
Product and Book Reviews
Book Review: Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches
This book aims to teach you Azure in around 20 hours, how does it fare?
2019-05-07
Book Review: Mastering .NET Machine Learning
This is a review of Jamie Dixon’s book Mastering .NET Machine Learning. For the sake of transparency, Jamie is a friend and if I hated his book I wouldn’t...
2019-04-25
Free SQL Server Load Testing Tools
So you wanna run a load test against SQL Server. One thing I need you to understand first: you have to provide the database and the queries. Almost all...
2019-04-22
HowTo: Install SSIS Framework Community Edition
SSIS Framework Comunity Edition is available from DILM Suite (Data Integration Lifecycle Management Suite). SSIS Framework CE is not only free, it is open source. To install SSIS Framework...
2019-04-22
SQL Clone for Unit Testing Databases
Phil Factor demonstrates how to use SQL Clone to create 'disposable' SQL Server databases, for development and testing work. You can spin up a clone, use it to unit...
2019-04-12
Monitoring your servers and databases: SCOM and SQL Monitor
SCOM is is good at monitoring the status of your servers. SQL Monitor give you a detailed view of your SQL Server instances, and databases, right across your network,...
2019-04-12
Hands-on: First public previews of Chromium-based Edge are now out
It's out now for Windows 10, with other operating systems coming later.
2019-04-08
Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager 6.2 Review
A look at Idera's Diagnostic Manager and how it can help you diagnose performance issues on your server instance.
2010-10-05
1,937 reads
Database Documentation Using Red Gate's SQLDoc
Longtime author David Poole has written an excellent article about using SQLDoc, from Red Gate Software. Learn how you can document your own databases in this sponsored article.
2009-08-10
3,123 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #125 – Unit testing databases – we need to do this!!
By HamishWatson
Welcome to the first April edition of T-SQL Tuesday. I’m honoured to be hosting...
T-SQL Tuesday Live–7 Apr 2020
By Steve Jones
Last week went a little crazy, and I learned something: don’t post a Zoom...
Getting Your dbatools Version–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for...
Forums
Dial sbcglobal helpline for Customer Service
SBCGlobal Email Settings: If you are going to use Sbcglobal for your email applications...
How not to have sql to restart on the same node but failover on 1st failure in a
Hi, By default sql tries to restart on the same node in case of...
Do I need to update statistics after compressing table?
I page-compressed a table with one Clustered and 4 non-clustered indexes, 5 million rows....
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