Building and maintain a SQL Server database environment takes a lot of work. There are many things to consider when you are designing, supporting and troubleshooting your environment. This article identifies a top ten list of mistakes, or things that sometimes are overlooked when supporting a database environment.
This is the first of a series of articles to analyze the use of surrogate keys in different scenarios.
This wraps up the last of the free training the PASS Virtual Chapters are providing in October.
As more and more people look to work away from inside traditional networks, security becomes an issue. As a data professional, Steve Jones reminds you to be sure that your data is protected.
It's been seven years since SQL Slammer, the worst SQL Server security worm struck. Steve Jones remembers that time.
Another webinar from SQLServerCentral that examines how you can compress your data on any edition of SQL Server.
The challenge of bringing data from efficient storage engines such as SQL Server into object-oriented programming models is hardly a new one. Most developers address this challenge by writing complex data access code to move data between their applications and the database. This requires an understanding of the database so that you can access data either from the raw tables, from views, or from stored procedures.
In part 2 of this series, Mohd Nizamuddin looks at sending multiple rows to the database from an application using XML.
There can be a great difference in the performance of a particular routine in a test database, and in a fully loaded production system. When you hit performance problems in a database under load, and there is excessive locking and blocking, how can you determine exactly where the problems lie, in order to fix them?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about ways to enjoy life without spending a lot of money. Some of these might even be great team building ideas.
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