Manage Your Career
The person responsible for your career is you. Steve Jones gives you a few thoughts on how you might approach your career.
SSD, The Game Changer
I’ve often described SQL Server to people new to databases as a data pump. Just like a water pump, you have limited capacity to move water in or out of a system usually measured in gallons per hour. If you want to upgrade your pumping systems it can be...
Giving Back
Steve Jones takes a minute today to congratulate Brian Knight and the Pragmatic Works Foundation for their efforts in giving back to the community.
SCOME - Centralize Monitoring with ASP.NET - Part 1
New author Drew Salem brings us a series on how to centrally monitor your SQL Servers. He includes ASP.NET code and a framework that will check your servers and display a report for you. This article presents an overview of the dealing with the SCOME issue.
Configuring the Maximum Degree of Parallelism
How to configure settings to limit the number of processors used in parallel query execution
Do SQL Server User Defined Datatypes (UDT) affect performance?
There is a legend among SQL Server developers and DBAs saying that UDTs may degrade performance. In this article I prove whether this believe is right or wrong.
Don’t Make Dumb Mistakes by Duplicating Indexes
Just today, I was reviewing the indexing of a database used by a third-party application. As part of my review, I ran a script against it that is used to identify duplicate indexes. The script I used was written Paul Nielsen, the author of the SQL Server...
PASS Update #9
Time has flown by since my last update, busy time at work and struggling to get that done and find a few hours for PASS too. Here's a short version of what I've been working on lately: Added the Top 10 List page and have some starter lists from...
Take Advantage of Hard Times
With the economy in a downturn, Steve Jones talks about what you might want to do to be pro-active with your projects.
Take Advantage of Hard Times
With the economy in a downturn, Steve Jones talks about what you might want to do to be pro-active with your projects.
Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Forums
Foreach Loop still executes after process and delete all the folders
I have two challenges XML source control not displaying the XML file parent node...
Which 'Where' statement conditional upon a variable
Thanks in advance for any clues on this. I am trying to write a...
Backup to Immutable Storage
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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