The Best High Availability
Clustering is often the first choice for high availability, but is it the best choice? A lot of people think so, but Steve Jones has other thoughts.
The Best High Availability
Clustering is often the first choice for high availability, but is it the best choice? A lot of people think so, but Steve Jones has other thoughts.
The Maintenance Plan Wizard Can Lead You Astray
In theory, the SQL Server Maintenance Plan Wizard is supposed to make it easier for non-DBAs or novice DBAs to create database maintenance plans that help to optimize the performance of their SQL Server databases. The problem is ...
Using Web Service and XML Tasks in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
Follow a detailed walkthrough of using the Web Service Task to connect to a web service and return an XML result.
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A licensing scheme from Embarcadero catches Steve Jones' eye. He comments on a great way for the company to work with customers.
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A licensing scheme from Embarcadero catches Steve Jones' eye. He comments on a great way for the company to work with customers.
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A licensing scheme from Embarcadero catches Steve Jones' eye. He comments on a great way for the company to work with customers.
Book Review: The Data Warehousing Toolkit 2nd Edition
Longtime author and SQL Server guru David Poole takes a look at a classic book about Data Warehousing.
SCOME - Part 3: The Failed Jobs Report
Monitoring your servers centrally requires a good reporting system. Drew Salem continues with his SCOME journey to tame servers with the building of a job report in this article.
Do You Take Notes?
I happen to notice this in a class recently that I had the rare student - one that could take notes that seemed to have value to them the next day. If you watch people take notes, I think they fall into one of these categories: The Highlighter. They have...
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PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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