Expert Analysis: A Case for Socialization of Data
It's time to integrate social data, enterprise analytics and enterprise data for better social-media strategy.
Beyond Automation
Are there some things that are beyond automation in your company? Steve Jones comments on the difficulty of changing things with automation in some cases.
Convert Mirroring to Log Shipping
Describes how to convert database mirroring to log shipping in SQL 2005/2008.
Additional Columns in StreamInsight Event Flow Debugger
This tool is excellent when investigating what is going on in your StreamInsight Streams. I was looking through the menu items recently and went to Query => Event Fields I found that there were a couple of columns not added by default to the event viewer (Reminds me of the fact that the Variables viewer in SSIS hides columns also) Latency NewEndTime EnqueueTime Here they all are together. This gives us even more information about what is going on
Can you set a pagefile more than 4GB?
Can you set a pagefile on a Windows machine to more than 4GB? Stanley Chan shows us how after an issue with a crashed Windows machine.
Penalties
Terry Childs gets sentenced for refusing to turn over passwords to his boss. Steve Jones reminds us that we work for someone and that we have to remember that when taking a stand.
Run SQL Command Against Multiple Instances Without CMS
I understand that I can use Central Management Servers to run a T/SQL query against multiple instances at once - can I do this without CMS though?
Beginning SQL Server
A presentation by Steve Jones that talks about the technical basics of what SQL Server is and how it works with some hints about backups, security, and more.
Improving database development with SQL Source Control
A webinar sponsored by Red Gate Software showing you how easy it can be to source control your database code. Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:00 PM EDT
Keeping Engaged
How can you better keep employees engaged in your company? Keep them happy and hopefully retain them for a long time? Steve Jones has some comments today.
Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Forums
Liability for AI Errors
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Running a Parameter-Sensitive Stored Procedure on a Secondary Replica
Hello , I would like to run a stored procedure on a secondary replica...
Pro SQL Server Internals
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers