Improving Database Design and Performance Using Compression
This article attempts to show a practical scenario on improving DB design and performance through row density and compression in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
SQLServerCentral Webinar #5 - Powershell and Source Control
MVP Allen White talked about how Powershell can be used to script out your database and put it in Source Control, and how SQL Source Control from
The DBA Disconnect
It seems that there is a disconnect between how technical people view security and how business people see it. Steve Jones talks about the problems that we have in trying to secure the systems we manage.
Get Drive Space Including Mount Points
Today’s post is a quick one that came out of a conversation on Twitter. To make a long story short,...
SQL Server Agent Job Management Scripts
In a previous tip, the tip reviewed several steps for a better and improved environment for scheduled jobs. I am totally convinced with the recommendations and want to implement these for my scheduled jobs. To make this easier, I want to create a template so I can produce a suitable and reliable way of updates for my production server. In this tip I provide a step by step exercise to perform on a test server to prepare the customized and tested scripts to run on the production server.
Are You a Ten?
Are you truly an expert in SQL Server? Would you claim to be a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10? Steve Jones notes that the product is so wide and deep that it's unlikely any of us will be an expert in most of SQL Server, and that's OK.
Handy Hardware Assessment Tools For SQL Server
Here is a small selection of useful tools for getting some specific hardware information from any Windows based system you...
Implementing SQL Server Database Mail
Have you ever wished your database could tell you what's wrong or let you know when a task has completed? SQL Server's Database Mail allows the database to send out messages over SMTP. Deanna Dicken shows you how to set up Database Mail and send some messages.
Google Scale
Not many of us work at Google scale, where every little thing you do can matter. However Steve Jones thinks that the little things still matter when you are building software.
TSQL Challenge 43 – Identifying incomplete segments and missing elemen
This challenge involves writing a logic to identify incomplete segments and missing elements in an electronic data integration file exchanged between two applications.
Blogs
Flyway Tips: Immediate Code Review for Developers
By Steve Jones
At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway...
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
Forums
Impact of Single-Threaded PVS Cleanup on ADR in SQL Server 2019
We want to enable ADR on our SQL Server 2019 instances. I’ve heard that...
Forward Deployed Engineers
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TRY_PARSE vs TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server: From Basics to Practical Usage
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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