Virtualization and the existential angst of the DBA
Tony Davis reflects on the existential angst felt by the DBA separated from his or her hardware.
Administrating SQL Server Reporting Services - Planning, Documenting and Troubleshooting
DBAs are usually charged with the administration of Reporting Services, but are often short on guidance on how to go about such tasks as planning, documenting and troubleshooting those aspects that are specific to the SSRS service. Feodor Georgiev gives some tips, custom SSMS reports, and useful TSQL queries, based on his experience.
People That Get It Done
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. This one follows on from his "are you easy to work with" piece.
Why SHRINKFILE is a very bad thing, and what to do about it.
This article talks about why SHRINKFILE is a very bad thing, and what to do about it if you must shrink a database file.
Building Ranges using T-SQL
We often use excel for any running repetitive calculations since it is a very convenient user friendly interface which allows us to just enter a formula in a cell and simply drag and drop the formulas to generate a complete output.
Careful with your Smartphone
Do you connect to your work network with your smartphone? If so, you should be careful and ensure you are taking precautions to prevent any security issues.
Jeff Moden: DBA of the Day
Jeff Moden's election to the Exceptional DBA of the Year award for 2011 was a popular one. Although all the finalists were exceptional, Jeff has impressed everyone with his energy, stamina and wit, particularly with his work on SQL Server Central. In conversation with Richard Morris, Jeff comes up with several nuggets of advice and opinion that are valuable for any DBA or database developer.
PASS Data Architecture VC presents Row Versioned Data Warehouses with Jeremy Huppatz
On Thursday December 15th at 8PM Pacific, Jeremy will discuss the strengths and disadvantages of a row-versioned data warehouse design in the context of a real world case study, sharing lessons learnt and demonstrating some of the technologies and techniques used to build a row-versioned data warehouse
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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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...
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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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