'Help, my database ate my disk drives!'. Many DBAs spend most of their time dealing with variations of the problem of database processes consuming too much disk space. This happens because of errors such as incorrect configurations for recovery models, data growth for large objects and queries that overtax TempDB resources. Rodney describes, with some feeling, the errors that can lead to this sort of crisis for the working DBA, and their solution.
This Friday's poll deals with security. Steve Jones asks how often you might rotate those encryption keys to ensure that your systems are secure.
The ROW_NUMBER function has drastically changed the way we can write a number of queries in T-SQL. New author Francis Rodrigues brings us a few places where this function can improve the efficiency of your code.
Sometimes, all a DBA needs, to help with day-to-day work, is a checklist of best-practices and dos and don’ts. It provides a handy reminder. Brad has come up with a new update to his famous checklist...
Is Microsoft SQL Server superior to MySQL or not? What are the pros and cons of using SQL Server over MySQL? Is MySQL mature enough to compete with a big player like Microsoft and Oracle? Can we fairly compare both products?
I am always looking to improve the performance of my SSIS packages. I try to do as much work within...
Arrogance has no place in assessing threats and attempting to build security to mitigate them.
This article explain how to automate SQL Database server health checks, exactly what an ideal DBA desires.
Just prior to the 2009 PASS Summit I posted about giving Twitter a try, and thought I’d report back on...
Like many busy DBAs, I used to be very dismissive of Twitter. It seemed like a self-indulgent waste of time....
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It’s that time of the month, and I’m late. My apologies. I had a...
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For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
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What is returned as a result set when I run this command without a new seed value?
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