Renaming a Database
Expert trainer and longtime DBA, Andy Warren, tackles the rather simple, but often understood, process of renaming a database. Learn about some of the issues you might encounter when trying to complete this task.
Using Profiler - SQL School Video
A basic tutorial that examines how Profiler can be used in SQL Server 2005 to monitor your SQL Server instance. MVP Brian Knight shows how to create a trace and the various options you have for monitoring events.
Lost in Space
It seems a tremendous amount of data is lost every year on laptops in airports. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with physical security and your portable computers.
Lost in Space
It seems a tremendous amount of data is lost every year on laptops in airports. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with physical security and your portable computers.
Lost in Space
It seems a tremendous amount of data is lost every year on laptops in airports. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with physical security and your portable computers.
Report Warns Of Data Warehouse 'Bottleneck' In Real-Time Analytics
In a report entitled "Really Urgent Analytics: The Sweet Spot for Real-Time Data Warehousing," Forrester advises intelligence and knowledge management professionals to familiarize themselves with the various approaches for adapting a data warehouse to meet real-time requirements, and, if necessary, consider bypassing the data warehouse altogether.
Labor Day Bloopers
With the Labor Day holiday in the US, Steve Jones takes a break from writing and brings you a compilation of mistakes from the past few months.
One Milly-yon IOPS - Database Weekly (Sept 1, 2008)
IBM is testing a new hardware disk array that vastly outperforms any current arrays. What does this mean for the database world?
How To Use the Analysis Services Processing Task in SSIS 2005
We are looking to automate the processing of our SQL Server Analysis Services dimensions and cubes. We'd like to add this processing to our existing SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages which periodically update our data warehouse from our OLTP systems. Can you give us the details on how the Analysis Services Processing Task can be used in an SSIS package?
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
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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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