SQL Saturday #156 - Providence, RI
Come visit Rhode Island and meet fellow SQL Server professionals from all over New England as SQL Saturday comes on Sept 15, 2012.
Finding a Balance
This editorial was originally published on Nov 19, 2007. It is being republished as Steve is on vacation. With the tremendous amount of digital storage that people can carry around these days, how do you balance the security risks.
Why is my transaction log full?
Why does the transaction log fill up? There are a variety of reasons, and MVP Gail Shaw walks you through the various things to check.
AlwaysOn Architecture Guide: Building a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution by Using AlwaysOn Availability Groups
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups provides a unified high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) solution that improves upon legacy functionality previously found across disparate features. Prior to SQL Server 2012, several customers used database mirroring to provide local high availability within a data center, and log shipping for disaster recovery across a remote data center. With SQL Server 2012, this common design pattern can be replaced with an architecture that uses availability groups for both high availability and disaster recovery. This paper details the key topology requirements of this specific design pattern, including quorum configuration considerations, steps required to build the environment, and a workflow that shows how to handle a disaster recovery event in the new topology.
The Personal Checksum
An interesting method of preventing restaurant fraud and a poll for other ways to determine the accuracy of data. This editorial was originally published on Nov 2, 2007. It is being republished as Steve is on vacation.
Using nmap to scan for SQL Servers on a network
I need to try and find all SQL Servers, not just the ones in my domain. We know there are a couple of appliances that are potentially running SQL Server and we want to see them, too. What can I use to do this?
Watch Your Mouth
The way you talk creates an impression at others. Steve Jones reminds us that we should be careful about using foul language.
The Seven Sins against T-SQL Performance
There are seven common antipatterns in T-SQL coding that make code perform badly, and three good habits which will generally ensure that your code runs fast. If you learn nothing else from this list of great advice from Grant, just keep in mind that you should 'write for the optimizer'.
AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012
This article discusses and demonstrates AlwaysOn Availability groups in SQL Server 2012, a new feature for high availability.
Shadow IT
There are often Shadow IT groups in many companies. Steve Jones talks about the potential problems of these groups, and how he has dealt with them in the past.
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Forums
Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
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BCP on Linux
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You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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