SQL Server on RDS
Amazon now offers SQL Server 2008 R2 in their RDS service. It's an easy way to get working with SQL Server with a minimal investment.
Transaction Replication Latency Diagnosis
Identify resource bottlenecks in a stressed transaction replication topology using PERFMON/PAL and system wait stats
How to Create an Indicator and Gauge Report in SSRS
SQL Server Reporting Services provides several ways to analyze the data; a few of them are creating reports with indicators and Gauges. Indicators are minimal gauges that convey the state of a single data value at a glance and are mostly used to represent the state value of Key Performance Indicator (KPI, a measurable value which has business significance with a specific target or goal that indicates whether things are going good or bad).
The Colocated Dangers
An outage at SQLServerCentral reminded Steve Jones that it's not "if" a disaster will occur, but "when" it will occur that should have you preparing for a disaster at some point in the future.
Deciding between COALESCE and ISNULL in SQL Server
When writing T-SQL, a lot of developers use either COALESCE or ISNULL in order to provide a default value in cases where the input is NULL. The two functions do have quite different behavior and it is important to understand the qualitative differences between them when using them in your code.
An examination of bulk-logged recovery model
This article looks at the bulk-logged recovery model in depth and examines how it affects disaster recovery and logging.
Mobile Password Protection
Security is becoming more of an issue for mobile devices as we store and access more information on them all the time.
Responsibility for Security
Steve Jones talks about security, and the developer's role in ensuring secure code.
Big Data is Just a Fad
The Term 'Big Data' is nothing more than a fad, and we'll soon be cringing with embarrassment at the thought that we ever used it. However, the data, and the challenges to processing it that it presents, will stay with us. If jargon like 'Big Data' helps us focus on the problems, then let’s use it: temporarily, perhaps.
Red Gate releases SQL Backup Pro 7
Red Gate Software has released SQL Backup Pro 7 with pioneering new features focused on SQL Server backup verification. SQL Backup Pro 7’s step-by-step scheduling wizards aim to simplify the process of restoring and verifying backups.
Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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Question of the Day
Independence Day 2026
In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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