Most of us learn on the job, but is that the best way? If you could learn faster at a cost, would you pay it? Steve Jones talks a little bit about what he has done and what he would do today in today's editorial. What is a SQL Server education worth to you?
Microsoft's new server lab building will house 35,000 servers. That's a lot of computing power, and it's being done in a greener fashion.
SQLServerCentral is changing usernames for some of our members in an effort to clean things up. Read more about what will be happening on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009.
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
Do you want to improve your T-SQL skills? MVP Jacob Sebastian runs regular challenges to get you to think about how to solve a problem in T-SQL. These run monthly and we have a summary and explanation from challenge #1 to help you learn more about moving data from 3 tables into a specific format.
High-Availability depends on how quickly you can recover a production system after an incident that has caused a failure. This requires planning, and documentation. If you get a Disaster Recovery Plan wrong, it can make an incident into a catastrophe for the business. Hugo Shebbeare discusses some essentials, describes a typical system, and provides sample documentation.
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
I have not worked with SQL Server 7.0 in a loooong time. So when I received a call from a...
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
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