Are you preparing for SQL Server 2008 R2?
With the launch of SQL Server 2008 R2 almost upon us, DBAs need to start planning in some time to see what it has to offer. Brad McGehee reviews some of the available resources.
2010-04-12
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Editorials
The Log Shipping Standard
Log shipping is a tool that has more benefits than just recovering from a major disaster. Steve Jones thinks this might be a tool that DBAs should use for all their critical databases.
2010-04-12
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Essential Software
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks if there is a set of essential software that every DBA needs to have installed on their machine.
2010-04-09
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Office Cleaning
A guest editorial from Andy Warren today looks at choices in time management, as well as work accomplished.
2010-04-08
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Don’t Change Anything
Being responsible for data integrity as well as the cleaning of data can be a problem for an organization. Steve Jones reminds us today that we should be careful about changing the data we work with.
2010-04-07
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Answering to the Business
As data professionals, or IT workers, we often have a lot of insight into how much our services cost and the options that are available. But many times the rest of the company does not. Steve Jones thinks we could be more transparent, and possibly help them to be more efficient.
2010-04-05
91 reads
Down Tools Week
Sometimes it's important for a developer or DBA to be given the opportunity to 'shake up their brain'. What falls out is almost always worth having.
2010-04-05
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2010-04-02
71 reads
No More NULL
A change in the support for NULL values has Steve Jones commenting on the implications.
2010-04-01
759 reads
ORM Mapping
A guest editorial from Phil Factor that discusses ORMs and how they ca be used, or mis-used, in our applications.
2010-03-31
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Blogs
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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