How Far Will You Go (To Work)?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at commuting to work.
Using PowerShell and WMI Events Queries for Powerful Notifications
With PowerShell in one hand, and WMI in the other, DBAs can do almost anything in their Window's environments, and Laerte Junior is using his powers for good. He built a highly precise, highly configurable alerting system for his servers, and now shows us exactly how he did it.
Data Matters
Data is important, but today Steve Jones notes that what we do with it is even more important.
Understanding Utility Control Point (UCP) in SQL Server 2008 R2
As your business grows, the number of applications grows as well, as do the SQL Server instances to support these applications. As a SQL DBA, you need to have a multi-server management dashboard that proactively tells you about the resource utilization on each SQL Server instance.
Raw Materials - Alternative Energy
Revenge is a dish best served cold, but body temperature's OK, too.
Simplify Large Queries with Temporary Tables, Table Variables and CTEs
This article demonstrates how to manage the development of complex queries by building them in stages with temporary tables, table variables and common table expressions.
The Window Is Shrinking
Today Steve talks about security and the fact that your window for lax security is shrinking for new applications.
Automatically Capturing SQL Server Performance Metrics
This article looks to provide a method that you can use to collect the author's top 10 SQL Server performance metrics automatically over time.
Hardware Hacking
Steve Jones examines one of the issues of foreign chip production: security. Will this be an attack vector in the future?
Blogs
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
Getting Your Data GenAI-Ready: The Next Stage of Data Maturity
By James Serra
I remember a meeting where a client’s CEO leaned in and asked me, “So,...
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?