E-Discovery and Data Retention
While most DBAs might never encounter the legal aspects of their professional, Phil Factor brings to light a few things that you might want to be aware of in these litigious times.
Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008
This article shows how to use the GROUPING SETS feature in SQL Server 2008
Mini-Me
This Friday Steve Jones asks if you build your own mini-me's to help you manage your database systems.
Mini-Me
This Friday Steve Jones asks if you build your own mini-me's to help you manage your database systems.
Mini-Me
This Friday Steve Jones asks if you build your own mini-me's to help you manage your database systems.
Creating a Basic Policy in SSMS - SQL School Video
In SQL Server 2008, we have a new way of enforcing rules on our servers. This video has MVP Brian Knight showing us how to create a basic policy in Policy Based Management.
Go Open
Is Open Source something you should examine with the economy diving down? Steve Jones talks about a few of the issues.
How to setup and use a SQL Server alias
I have an application that has a specified database connection that I either can't or don't want to change. However, I need to move the database to a new server. How can I do this easily without breaking other things that maybe using this connection and/or database?
SSAS Cache Warming Using SSIS
Having your users walk into a cold cache on a morning is something that will cause them to have slower running queries initially. Cache warming takes care of a lot of that by executing typical queries against the newly processed cube and thereby building the cache ready for your users
Trust But Verify
As data professionals we need to be sure that we can present back the data we receive. Perhaps other people should embrace this mantra in other lines of work.
Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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