In this, the third of the four part series on persisting the rowset results from the indexing Dynamic Management Views cached in temporary internal SQL Server structures we will explore what is required to store the missing index-related metadata.
SQL Server 2008 introduces a new feature, the Resource Governor, which provides enterprise customers the ability to both monitor and control the way different workloads use CPU and memory resources on their SQL Server instances. This paper explains several practical usage scenarios and gives guidance on best practices.
This article gives an example of a deadlock occurrence and the resolution steps taken. (Republished from 2008).
This Friday's poll asks how much you can help yourself while working at your job? Can you build your own brand at work?
This Friday's poll asks how much you can help yourself while working at your job? Can you build your own brand at work?
SQL Server 2005/2008 provides the ability to change the execution and security context with the EXEC or EXECUTE AS clause to allow a user to perform high privileged activities without allowing the user to have high privilege access.
Recently, a fellow DBA showed me a set of documentation on a commercially available product. This is a product people pay money for to license and use. It's not an in-house developed application or a community released free sample.
Securely sending Service Broker messages from instance to instance requires a somewhat complex configuration. This tip walks you through the proper methods
SQL Server 2005 implemented the concept of a database object schema. A schema is a distinct namespace to facilitate the separation, management, and ownership of database objects. It removed the tight coupling of database objects and owners to improve the security administration of database objects. Database object schemas offer functionality to control and help secure application objects within a database environment not available in previous versions of SQL Server.
I've had a few requests in the past, so I decided to just give it a go. Here's the raw footage from the episode of the Voice of the DBA podcast that I shot this week. It's uncut, the raw footage of what I took off the camcorder,
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Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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