Surface Possibilities
The Surface is Microsoft's tabletop computer that can be controlled with your hands and doesn't require a keyboard. Is there value in this system for DBAs?
Surface Possibilities
The Surface is Microsoft's tabletop computer that can be controlled with your hands and doesn't require a keyboard. Is there value in this system for DBAs?
Use Access 2007 to Get Started in Data Mining
Learn how you can use Microsoft Access 2007 as a basic data mining tool for exploring your valuable data. This article illustrates how data filters, pivot graphs, queries in graphs and filters in reports can help this cause.
Generating Random Results - SQL School Video
How can you randomly generate data? MVP Andy Warren shows how in this SQL School Video.
Managing many SQL Servers?
Here's an article from Rudy Panigas on how to more effectively manage multiple servers.
The Hassles of Travel
As he prepares for a trip across the Atlantic, Steve Jones talks about some things he doesn't like about travel.
Extending the REVERT statement using the WITH COOKIE clause in SQL Server 2005
In a previous tip on Switching Execution Context using the REVERT clause, you have seen how to switch execution context to a more privileged user and revert back to the original context of the caller within a programmable object. The REVERT clause accepts a parameter WITH COOKIE to provide an even more granular option. How do we use it?
Obtaining Index Usage Information
This article shows how the sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats DMV can be used to tune your indexes, and maximize the performance of your database
Checkpoints in SSIS
Integration Services has a lot of features to enable to you perform ETL operations on data moving into SQL Server. Longtime author Dinesh Asanka brings us an article on
No More Lottery
Steve Jones talks about the lack of a big payday for tech workers. Not that most of us were expecting one.
Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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