I recently encountered a situation where the drive hosting Sharepoint Databases in a Staging environment ran out of space. I logged onto the server and found that the msdb database has itself occupied 38 GB of the total disk space. Msdb database generally contain maintenance information for the database such as backups, log shipping and so on.
We'd like to better understand the kinds of database related development tasks that you perform, so that we can ensure our tools are helping you to be more productive.
The DevConnections conference in the spring of 2012 is in Las Vegas, and Steve Jones is glad to be going.
This article presents an easy method to get YTD data grouped by months in T-SQL.
There are lots of things to think about when you design a physical database. What data types should I use? What column is appropriate for the primary key? Are there particular indexes that I should use to improve performance? How should I implement data integrity rules? This list goes on and on. In this article Greg Larsen will be exploring different physical database design elements.
There should be some method to your madness when fixing code. At least, that's what Linus Torvalds thinks and Steve Jones agrees.
Databases are unique in IT that they are singularly resistant to 'best practice' advice. Any such advice can never be anything other than a starting position for tests in your own environment.
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Step-by-step instructions how to build a stored procedure that dynamically constructs and executes a merge statement within SSIS.
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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