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?
Hidden RBAR: Counting with Recursive CTE's
"Counting" is essential to many high performance code techniques. SQL Server MVP, Jeff Moden, shows us how to make sure that we're "Counting" and not "Crippling" our trick-code.
TSQL Challenge 62 - Break a long sentence in groups of 5 words
Read the input string and break each sentence into groups of 5 words. A row may contain more than one sentence. Each sentence in the input should start a new group.
What SQL Server Books Do You Recommend
Brad's noticed that there are fewer good books about SQL Server on the shelves, and asks which books you'd recommend to people who are new to SQL Server
Adding the Script Task to Your SSIS Packages
Script tasks are a great way of extending SSIS functionality, when none of the built-in components are quite right for the task you need to perform. But how to go about creating a script task? No worries, once again Robert Sheldon is on hand to provide easy instructions on how to do it.
Free Two User License SourceGear Vault Professional
Read more about how you can get a free two user license from SourceGear and Red Gate Software.
Guide To MCITP: SQL Server 2008 Administration
Find out what you need to learn for the SQL Server 2008 Administration certification exams.
How to Compare the Data in Two Tables Without Any 3rd-Party Tool?
SQL Server ships with the tablediff utility which can be used to compare the data in two tables. Read this article to learn it step-by-step:
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Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
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When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
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This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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Five Intelligent Query Processing Features in SQL Server 2022 That Quietly Tune Your Workload
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Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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