How to Setup Log Shipping for Multiple Databases
This article by Brian Davey describes how to setup log shipping for a large number of databases minimizing the number of jobs needed thus significantly reducing CPU and memory usage.
This article by Brian Davey describes how to setup log shipping for a large number of databases minimizing the number of jobs needed thus significantly reducing CPU and memory usage.
One of the primary goals of business intelligence is to transform raw data into meaningful information, by combining its sources, discovering its dependencies and patterns, and using them to predict future trends.
With the following technique, you can quickly read information stored in the extended properties of a SQL Server table.
It's time for the SQLServerCentral Party at PASS and Steve Jones talks about the event.
How can you tell when your SQL Server instance was last started? In this tip we look at various methods of how to get the start time for a SQL Server instance.
Today Steve Jones talks about the probabilities of different types of disasters occurring in your enterprise. He reminds you that the effort spent on disaster recovery ought to be related to the cost of the disaster, and the risk of it actually occurring.
Whereas there are plenty of experts prepared to help with the technology, few seem to come forward when the struggle is against the bureaucracy rather than a recalcitrant server. Where are all the SQL MVBs (Masters at Vanquishing Bureaucracy) when you need them!?
A new user group is forming at the University of Washington in Tacoma, WA. Come to their next meeting on Sept 29th, 2011.
Developers, by every natural instinct and training, strive to make their code reusable and generic. Dissuading them from doing so, in certain circumstances, is akin to trying to persuade a dog not to fetch a stick.
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
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“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers