Live Monitoring
You can get a look into how SQLServerCentral handles the load of it's database servers with a new tool, and release of reports.
Setting SQL Server Default Locations
How to set the default locations for backups, data files, and log files in SQL Server.
November 2010 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Apparently, when I posted this a few days ago, the Windows Live Writer plug-in that I used mangled the T-SQL...
SQL Saturday #61 - DC
A free day of training in Reston, VA, just outside Washington DC. Come join Andy Leonard, Allen White and others for some SQL Server learning.
SQL Server Statistics: Problems and Solutions
SQL Server Statistics assist the query optimiser to calculate the best way of running the query. Holger describes every common way that things can go wrong with statistics, and how to put matters right.
Automated Driving
Could we ever have computers automating our cars and handling the driving for us? Steve Jones doesn't think so, despite some ongoing projects.
Creating Dynamic Outputs in SSIS to an SQL Database
This article shows how you can dynamically split data based on transaction type to its own destination table using Integration Services.
Live Blogging from the PASS Summit
Tim Mitchell is the SQLServerCentral correspondent at the 2010 PASS Summit.
An Overview of Extended Events in SQL Server 2008
In this tip we look at Extended Events for SQL Server 2008 and how they are different from earlier tracing and troubleshooting methods.
MS SQL Server 2011 aka Denali, Next Version of SQL Server - CTP 1 Now available!
Ladies and Gentlemen, SQL Server 2011, aka Denali, CTP 1 is now available as public download :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6a04f16f-f6be-4f92-9c92-f7e5677d91f9
Although, I'm not attending...
Blogs
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
Forums
Inquiry – Enforcing ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly via GPO
Hello, I would like to ask whether it is technically possible to redirect a...
Calculating Geometric Mean in Power BI
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TempDB Facts I
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TempDB Facts I
Can I set Accelerated Database Recovery on tempdb?
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