Rodney Landrum, DBA manager in Pensacola, Florida, puts the pain of DBA:M into context as we learn about how SQL Backup can evolve to keep pace. Take a look at the changes we’ve got planned to help time-pressed DBAs in the forthcoming pre-release of version 6.0, including a new compression level and network resilience.
Learn how to get most of the formats required by different countries and applications, using one common date function.
SQL Server 2008 Extended Events are the new low level, high performance eventing system in SQL Server. They use less system resources and provide better tracking of SQL Server performance than previous methods like Perfmon and SQL Trace/Profiler events.
Why doesn't SQL Server just run smoothly after it's installed? Steve Jones thinks the problem is you.
Why doesn't SQL Server just run smoothly after it's installed? Steve Jones thinks the problem is you.
Why doesn't SQL Server just run smoothly after it's installed? Steve Jones thinks the problem is you.
On a couple of recent webcasts, I pointed out the folks were running with the local Administrator account. To start this out, I'm not a big fan of security by obfuscation. Security by obfuscation (not code obfuscation, but security by obscurity, if...
We all make mistakes, even when we are trying to help others. What should you do about it? Steve Jones has a few thoughts on advice online.
A legal challenge to the Sarbannes-Oxley act is being heard this fall. Steve Jones doesn't necessarily think this is a bad law.
In this article I have shown a way of writing queries in which WHERE clause of the query is executed dynamically depending on values of input parameters.
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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