In continuing with our series of tips on Best Practices for SQL Server I'm turning my sights on Maintenance. Specifically in this tip we will be discussing Index maintenance: when, if, why, and how are questions that will be addressed.
Hadoop is an interesting new software project in the Linux world that deals with large data sets. Steve Jones wonders if anyone in the SQL Server world has started working with it.
Reporting Services is a great tool for presenting data to users. However the changes in SSRS 2008 might cause you a problem after installation. New author Patrick LeBlanc has a solution you can try.
Hadoop is an interesting new software project in the Linux world that deals with large data sets. Steve Jones wonders if anyone in the SQL Server world has started working with it.
Hadoop is an interesting new software project in the Linux world that deals with large data sets. Steve Jones wonders if anyone in the SQL Server world has started working with it.
Hadoop is an interesting new software project in the Linux world that deals with large data sets. Steve Jones wonders if anyone in the SQL Server world has started working with it.
In this tip I will show you an easy way to identify the scheduled Reporting Services report, so you can run that scheduled job to reproduce the reports and delivery of the reports.
In today's database reporting market, most vendor applications use a proprietary format for representing the definition of a report. In addition, vendors that provide a report execution environment usually only support their own design tools. For customers, this means that reports cannot be easily moved between different reporting implementations and that there are few options for choosing new tools that work with their existing execution environments.
Another frequently heard story is that stored procedures get and reuse execution plans, but ad hoc queries do not. A...
It's easy to get excited if you work at a startup, or a software company. But for corporate workers that toil in IT departments all around the world, how do you keep them motivated? Steve Jones has a few thoughts about simple things that make workers feel better about their jobs.
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I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
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Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
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While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers