SQL Saturday #158 - New York City
Free training in New York. Come learn about SQL Server, meet other pros, and then enjoy a night in the city.
A Really Good Job
Today Steve Jones talks about how you can find a really good job. And how you can make changes in your life to get you there.
Help Red Gate create a new monitoring tool
Red Gate Software is looking to offer a new monitoring service and is looking for opinions and ideas in making it happen.
Managing SQL Server Extended Events in Management Studio
We’ve all heard about Extended Events and how they can help troubleshoot SQL Server performance, connectivity, and locking problems, but they seem so difficult to implement using T-SQL. Isn’t there a better way to implement SQL Server Extended Events?
PASS Data Architecture VC presents Ami Levin on Where Are My (Primary) Keys?
On Thursday July 26th 12PM noon Central, Ami Levin will revisit some of the fundamental principles of relational databases – normalization rules, key selection and some controversies surrounding these rules.
Leveling the Field
Today Steve Jones talks about the ability of cloud services to level the field when it comes to software, especially for small companies.
Process to truncate transaction log of replicated database
This article demonstrated the steps which you must follow to gracefully truncate the publisher database transaction log file by resetting replication.
Free Webinar: Monitoring your business, not just your servers – Getting the most out of SQL Monitor
Wednesday July 25 2012, 6:00pm BST: Learn how you can use SQL Monitor to gather information and alert on extra performance data for your servers and applications, making this tool vital for keeping an eye on your business. In this free webinar David Bick, Product Manager at Red Gate, will give you an overview of SQL Monitor including the new custom metric functionality in v3.
Implementing SQL Server's Change Data Capture
When SQL Server 2008 was released the Microsoft product group came out with a new feature called "Change Data Capture" that allows you to track the changes that occur to a table. Greg Larsen gives you a primer of how to implement change data capture and how to review the captured information to produce an audit trail of the changes to a database table.
SQL Saturday #159 - Kansas City
BBQ and SQL Server. Come to a free day of training in Kansas City on Aug 4.
Blogs
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Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log
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Before Using AI with Business Data, Read This
Artificial intelligence tools are quickly becoming part of daily business operations, from document analysis...
Designing SQL Server ETL Pipelines That Don't Break at Scale
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Detecting Deadlocks Quickly
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Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks Quickly
In the Database Engine, when a deadlock is detected, what does the detection interval shrink to (in time)?
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