Marcin Policht presents the fundamental principles of PowerShell in the context of SQL Server 2012. Join him as he steps through its initial setup and configuration, and reviews specific management areas where its advantages can be realized.
In this Level, we’ll look at how to use XML methods within user-defined functions to return XML fragments and values from your target XML instance.
Google has a new project to use a "database of everything" to help you learn more.
In earlier installments of this series we looked at T-SQL Performance optimizations along with different T-SQL practices, we can now turn our attention to the second part of this series which is index Tuning
Audits for technology groups can be time consuming and stress employees out. An article Steve Jones finds says an insurance company only needed 30 minutes to ace their audit.
How do you recover from corruption if your organization doesn't have a disaster recovery handbook? And how can you prevent the same corruption from recurring?
As a production Database Administrator, I do not want to give Developers direct access to the SQL Server Agent job log especially for servers in the DMZ. Another problem we have is that when there is a lot of log data for a job, the default job log doesn't contain the full log detail and that makes it harder to troubleshoot. Most of all, we are trying not to use a different code set for deployment based on the environment. Basically we want to use the same methods to deploy our jobs to Development, Test and Production.
Phil Factor on his renewed appreciation for the "customer-focused" culture of the Data Platform Group at Microsoft
There is likely still a lot of 32-bit software out there, even as the x86 platform appears to be dying away. Steve Jones notes that you'll likely be dealing with 32/64 bit issues in your career.
This articles shows a technique that generates and launches an SSIS package to update statistics in parallel.
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
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