SQL Overview V - Monitoring Long Running Jobs
Continuing with his series on monitoring your SQL Servers, David Bird now looks a a way to fin those long running, active jobs.
Backup to multiple files for faster and smaller SQL Server backup files
Write your database backup to multiple files. In addition to writing your database backup to one file you have the ability to write to multiple files at the same time and therefore split up the workload. The advantage to doing this is that the backup process can run using multiple threads and therefore finish faster as well as having much smaller files that can be moved across the network or copied to a CD or DVD.
Third Normal Form
The third article in our series on normalization from Tom Thomson continues with an explanation on what constitutes third normal form.
You Can Telecommute
Today Steve Jones tells you can implement telecommuting at your job and gives you a few ideas how to get it approved.
SQLSkills Immersion training in London
A wrap up from MVP and expert Gail Shaw on her experiences of training with SQLskills.
Time for a ROWID?
Steve Jones looks to the future of SQL Server and wonders if we ought to add a rowid to the internal structures.
System Monitor (Perfmon) Counters for SQL Server 2005
Capturing performance monitor counters is of great value to understand how SQL Server is behaving at a macro level, that being how overall resources are being used within the engine. Without this data it is difficult to determine where the performance issues are occurring. Capturing the metrics has been traditionally from Performance Monitor either on an ad-hoc basis or setting up a log to capture the values on a predefined basis.
NewSQL Can Save the World
A new breed of products use the relational model and address the scalability concerns of many RDBMSes. Today Steve Jones talks about NewSQL databases.
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When growing companies outgrow Excel
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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