Suggested Max Memory Settings for SQL Server 2005/2008
It is pretty important to make sure you set the Max Server memory setting for SQL Server 2005/2008 to something...
T-SQL Best Practices – Don’t Use Scalar Value Functions in Column List or WHERE Clauses
Query performance can be affected by many different factors. This article introduces another best practice of how and how not to use a function within your T-SQL statements.
Updating a Database from WinForms Controls, Old School
Of all of the reader email I get, just these two things alone reminded me that of course I don't know everything, and many of you are working at a widening level of experience. To that end, this article is an old school article that shows new-to-WinForms programmers how to read data from controls and contrive SQL that updates a database.
It's Time for Encryption
Encryption is starting to become a necessity, not an option as we work with and store more sensitive data. A guest editorial from Andy Warren comments on our fears of implementing encrpytion and why we might want to just encrypt everything.
Come and Get it! Making Business Intelligence More Consumable
This, the first in a series of three articles, describes the history of information workers and discusses their characteristics. The next article will describe how to leverage the latest BI technologies, and the final article will address how to improve information consumability.
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Performance Best Practices
This tip is going to cover recommendations related to the SQL Server Destination Adapter, asynchronous transformations, DefaultBufferMaxSize and DefaultBufferMaxRows, BufferTempStoragePath and BLOBTempStoragePath as well as the DelayValidation property.
Automate the Publishing of Data Changes into DML Scripts
For those of you still using SQL Server 2000, learn how to use SQL-DMO to create DML scripts to deploy new records or data changes to other servers. From Oscar Garcia.
Why Is It Complicated?
One of the very common things that is needed in SQL Server is performing a restore of a database. It's also one of the most important things that needs to take place. So why isn't this a simpler process? Steve Jones wonders why we can't make this a simpler process.
Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 2)
In the first installment of this discussion, I talked about the challenges facing database professionals and others with respect to...
SQL Server Reporting Services Disaster Recovery Case Study
There are many ways to perform disaster recovery with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Based upon customer experience and internal testing, this technical note provides guidance around best practices to design and manage robust end-to-end disaster recovery (DR). This DR method will involve both automatic and manual failover in the form of content switches, SQL Server failover clustering, and database mirroring. This case study focuses on the lessons learned from CareGroup Healthcare System.
Blogs
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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