In this final look into his everyday essentials, Laerte Junior provides some useful scripts for the DBA that use an alternative way of error-logging. He shows how to use a PowerShell script to check and, if necessary, to defragment your indexes, write data to a SQL Server table, and change the collation for a table. Being an exceptional DBA just got a little easier.
Data compression is an Enterprise Edition only feature that was added in SQL Server 2008. It allows you to use...
The Announcement
On February 2nd, PASS (@sqlpass), here, and Andy Warren (@sqlandy), here, announced ownership of the SQLSaturday franchise brand was transferred...
In this article we summarized the experiences we gathered during the planning and upgrade of a customer's project. The customer is one of the largest retail shops in its area. Their architecture is made up of a main server, which is located at headquarters and hosts several hundred publications containing over a thousand articles. Regional stores are located all over the country acting as subscribers for the publications hosted on the main server. Based on the business needs and infrastructure limitations the customer set the following goals for the project:
A guest editorial from Tim Mitchell today talks about the way you handle problems. Other people's problems. A professional way of pointing out mistakes is the best policy.
Part 4 of this series, Shahfaisal Muhammed brings another method of deploying your SSAS projects to a new server: the synchronize database method. The rest of the series covers other methods.
In my last post, I noted that one of the biggest differences between ISNULL and COALESCE was the fact that...
SQL Server impersonation, or context switching, is a means to allow the executing user to assume the permissions of a given user or login until the context is set back, set to yet another user, or the session is ended. Deanna Dicken shows you two mechanisms for accomplishing this task and walks through some examples.
Google recently unveiled a dashboard to allow users to manage the data that Google stores about them. Including removing search data! Steve Jones comments on the possibility of implementing this for other companies.
There are a number of events coming up in 2010 that need speakers to share their knowledge of SQL Server with others. Check out this list and consider submitting something.
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
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If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
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In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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