Creating a Maintenance Plan in SSMS - SQL School Video
Maintaining your database server is something every DBA or developer needs to do. This video shows how to setup a basic maintenance plan.
DBA Value
Are DBAs worth more to a company than other types of IT employees? Steve Jones has some thoughts about the salary ranges for DBAs today.
DBA Value
Are DBAs worth more to a company than other types of IT employees? Steve Jones has some thoughts about the salary ranges for DBAs today.
Fix the Little Things
There are any number of small, annoying or tedious things in SQL Server and Steve Jones makes a case for getting them fixed.
Fix the Little Things
There are any number of small, annoying or tedious things in SQL Server and Steve Jones makes a case for getting them fixed.
Fix the Little Things
There are any number of small, annoying or tedious things in SQL Server and Steve Jones makes a case for getting them fixed.
Reports for SQL Server 2008 System Data Collections
With SQL Server 2008's new Data Collection feature and the Management Data Warehouse (MDW), came three system Data Collection sets. This article covers the different data collection standard reports that have been provided to display information related to the statistics collected by the system data collections.
Using the FORFILES Command to Delete SQL Server Backups
Is there a way I can automate a file deletion process from within SQL Server?
CDC and Data Warehouse
The following article shows how Change Data Capture can be used to capture incremental data changes and use them in an ETL Process
DBA Value
Are DBAs worth more to a company than other types of IT employees? Steve Jones has some thoughts about the salary ranges for DBAs today.
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How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
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Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
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Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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