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.
Restore a SQL Server 2008 Database into SQL Server 2005
You likely will need to test data against SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005, but ordinary backups are incompatible. Use SQL Server 2008's Generate SQL Server Scripts Wizard to push your SQL Server 2008 data back into SQL Server 2005.
The January 2009 Car Update
With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.
Blogs
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
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Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
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Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Roundup
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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