A Live Node
Today we have an editorial from March 29, 006 as Steve is on vacation. Today Steve talks about the problems of constantly being distracted and not focusing on one thing.
Advice from Exceptional DBAs: Do it!
Nominations for the Exceptional DBA of 2011 opened on May 25. Bob Cramblitt spoke with past award winners to find out what has happened to them since receiving the award and to get advice for people thinking about nominating themselves or colleagues.
SQL Server Agent Jobs without an Operator
I work in a fairly large and unwieldy SQL Server shop. Our environment is the wild west. I have DBAs and Developers on my team that create SQL Server Agent Jobs all of the time and there is never an operator setup to email anyone based on a failure condition. I know the right solution here is to "tame the wild west" by locking down the environment and setting up a change management process, but I think that is a topic for another day. Can you give me some idea of how to identify the new recently created SQL Server Agent Jobs and Jobs without an operator setup to email us for a failure condition? I would like to receive emails when either of these conditions occur. Check out the solution to this tip to learn how.
A Note to My Fellow Application Developers about Knowing Our Limits
Today we have a guest editorial from Chris O’Connor as Steve is on vacation. Today Chris talks about the responsibilities of application developers in safeguarding the data when there is no DBA.
Can't Connect Remotely to Integration Services
Integration Service is running on rnage of dynamic port and user can’t connect Integration Service remotely.
Free BI Training in June
Free training from Pragmatic Works, Microsoft and SQLServerCentral. Learn about SSAS performance, SSIS Configurations, GIS in SSRS and more.
SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Integration Services - Message Queuing Using Script Task
SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services offer a number of built-in features that simplify ETL, but they come with limited functionality. Here's a solution.
The SQL Server BI Quiz
From MVP Jacob Sebastian, creator of the T-SQL Challenges, there is a BI quiz throughout the month of June. Enter and answer questions each day for the chance to win prizes.
Red Gate extends freedom of mobile SQL monitoring
Red Gate has released SQL Monitor 2.3, providing improved data analysis and the ability to receive alerts through PagerDuty.
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers