Viewing the Data Profiling Task Data - SQL School Video
It can be helpful in ETL operations to know what the distribution of your data is. Brian Knight shows how to use the Data Profiling task in this video.
Dynamically getting mail profile for sp_send_dbmail
I have found that I like to generate a script once and roll it out to multiple servers at the same time. SQL Server 2008 Management Studio makes that fairly easy by allowing one window to connect to multiple instances simultaneously
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
Reporting Services Performance Optimizations
This technical note is part of the Building and Deploying Large Scale SQL Server Reporting Services Environments technical note series, which provides general guidance on how to set up, implement, and optimize an enterprise scale-out architecture for your Reporting Services environment. This note provides guidance for Reporting Services in both Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The focus of this technical note is to optimize your Reporting Services architecture for better performance and higher report execution throughput and user loads
3 Tips On Being A Rookie DBA
New author Greg Bates brings us a few tips for those of you new to being a DBA or without much experience.
DBAs and the art of persuasion
How does a DBA go about "pitching" for money for a software tool, or any other resource? And what factors affect the likelihood of success? We all think we know, but could we do this part of the job more effectively?
The Cost of Reboots
Would you want to have your pay docked for time spent rebooting? It seems some companies are trying to do just that.
Auto notification for failover of a server and restart of SQL Server services
Learn how you can monitor the SQL Server instances for failover of a cluster or a restart.
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Forums
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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