As many that follow your articles and in general following SQL Central, we are all data "fanatics" you could say. Data can be indeed helpful to make decisions of all...

I'm the opposite to what Steve Jones comments. I use a heavily modified SSMS via lot of plugins and 3rd part tools and ofc a mix of previous tips:

- own...

Useful script, I will make use of it inmediately. Since you posted maybe surely you have improve it or even you are using some other approach. I made couple of...

Gary Varga (10/3/2014)

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yazalpizar_ (10/3/2014)

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...What I usually see is that developers think on NoSQL as a hammer and everything else is a nail. Many of them believe is a "SQL Server...

Similar to last reply, our environment is heavily based on MS products and we are planning on jumping from 2008R2 straight to 2014 and switching from current mirror solution to...

Mostly always being working on small companies with no DBA's and around 5-10 dev. But lat two positions on bigger companies I've seen awfull situation: one DBA for an horde...

I agree with the article, finding some stress reliever after work is important for me. I do lot of mountainbiking, mainly enduro and downhill. We are about 4-5 DBA's/developers/sysadmin on...

I saw in 1984 the first computer ever, it was a MSX Panasonic, one of those big black keyboards that plugged in on b/w televisors. I still remind the instruction...

Good reading. I just passed past monday the 70-432 exam, but yesterday failed on the 70-450...ouch! All your recommendations are right, I need to work harder on the high availability,...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/1/2012)

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yazalpizar_ (5/1/2012)

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With the proliferation of SSD disk and its costs going down, some RAID levels with low write performances are no longer so low. Put...

Totally agree, this answer Markus question too I think

sku370870 (5/9/2012)

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You've spend hundreds of hours developing. A lot of your business logic is in your stored procedures and functions. You can't afford SQL Server hosting of your own. You...

I do not think that Amazon has just "provided the DBA", all the contrary, they provide the hardware and the sys admin functions, the DBA tasks is on our side....

With the proliferation of SSD disk and its costs going down, some RAID levels with low write performances are no longer so low. Put an SSD in your life. I've...

Old post but still usefull, thanks