Great DBAs in History
What great historical figures would make great DBAs? A guest editorial from Grant Fritchey examines the traits and characteristics we look for in this role and which famous people we might choose and why.
Maintaining Security and Performance using Stored Procedures Part I – Using EXECUTE AS
Anyone who knows me, or has worked with me, knows that I am a proponent of using stored procedures for...
Open DBDiff for SQL Server 2008
The DBDiff utility compares two databases and generates a script to synchronize the two databases. In this article, MAK illustrates the various uses of the Open Diff utility.
Database Space Capacity Planning
Describes a process to create a consolidated space forecasting report, which focuses on a "days remaining" metric.
Working at Microsoft
Would you want to work at Microsoft? Do you think Steve Jones does? Read a few thoughts from him on his experience with the software giant.
MSDE – Database Size Limit
Most of you are aware that the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) limits database size to 2 gigabytes. ...
SQL Server Tempdb Usage and Bottlenecks tracked with Extended Events
How do I effectively find out if the Tempdb database is suffering from an allocation bottleneck? Should I create multiple TempDB files per core on this server to improve performance? How do I check this information programmatically?
Using new location-aware data types in SQL Server 2008
With SQL Server 2008, you will have new built-in support for location based data types and supporting geospatial features. Next you will learn how these new data types work.
Weak Passwords Discovered in the 10,000 Disclosed Hotmail/Live.com/MSN leaked accounts
By now, hopefully everyone has heard of the security breach where accounts and passwords were found on a public site listed the account usernames and passwords of some 10,000 users. Initially it was just reported to be Hotmail/Live.com/MSN, but it turns
Working at Microsoft
Would you want to work at Microsoft? Do you think Steve Jones does? Read a few thoughts from him on his experience with the software giant.
Blogs
On Speaking Well
By Brian Kelley
Professor Patrick Winston of MIT used to give a one-hour talk about how to...
Monday Monitor Tips: Oracle Custom Metrics
By Steve Jones
One of the popular features of Redgate Monitor has been the ability to add...
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
Forums
Troubleshooting WQL in custom PBM conditions?
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Analysis of Locking Issues on Secondary Replicas in AlwaysOn Availability Groups
We have an AlwaysOn architecture with four replicas: two running in synchronous commit mode...
The Vector Data Type
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The Vector Data Type
What is the vector data type in SQL Server?
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