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And there are the Virtual Labs from Microsoft. They can help you learn online too.
October 18, 2012 at 7:19 am
If you're just learning, the SQL Database on Azure will do a lot of what you need. They have free accounts you can set up. Also, check out Amazon Web...
October 18, 2012 at 7:15 am
Free ones? Sure, Performance Monitor is built into every Windows OS. It's the foundation for monitoring the server and behavior within SQL Server. Then, if you're running 2008 or better...
October 18, 2012 at 6:55 am
Do you mean the Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective? RTO being how long it takes to get back online and RPO being how much data you can afford...
October 17, 2012 at 8:28 am
I'd love to hear the reasoning behind that.
October 17, 2012 at 8:23 am
Problem is, if another insert occurs on the master table before you get to your detail table, IDENT_CURRENT will not return the one you want. In order to do this,...
October 17, 2012 at 8:21 am
The two books below in my signature can help with query tuning. I also wrote part of an introductory book called Begginning SQL Server 2012 Administration. After that, all the...
October 17, 2012 at 8:15 am
The only problem with RDP is that if you have 3rd party tools to help you with your work, and you have individualized settings on those tools, RDP sessions require...
October 17, 2012 at 8:11 am
You can get aggregate information about queries from the dynamic management objects (DMO), specifically by querying sys.dm_exec_query_stats. But, that assumes that the query is still in cache. If it's aged...
October 17, 2012 at 8:10 am
At one point, when I had too much to support, I had 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008R2 and a beta of 2012 all running on the same machine (with two different...
October 17, 2012 at 8:08 am
It is hard to figure out how to deal with wildly deviant feedback. "Best session of the day" and "Whiny dick" were two of the feedback I got in OKC...
October 16, 2012 at 5:31 am
I really enjoyed that trip, although I came home utterly exhausted at the end of it. Worst thing was trying to remember what I had said or not said during...
October 16, 2012 at 4:25 am
ScottPletcher (10/11/2012)
Grant Fritchey (10/11/2012)
ScottPletcher (10/11/2012)
Grant Fritchey (10/11/2012)
As an aside, the CHAR(2) would be a really poor choice for the first column in a compound key. You'd want to use either...
October 11, 2012 at 12:34 pm
ScottPletcher (10/11/2012)
Grant Fritchey (10/11/2012)
As an aside, the CHAR(2) would be a really poor choice for the first column in a compound key. You'd want to use either the INT or...
October 11, 2012 at 12:07 pm
I'd be nervous about creating that many indexes, especially if you're only saving a few pages read from memory. If the query was called thousands of times a minute, heck...
October 11, 2012 at 6:01 am
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