Most of us DBAs have worked on our career to get where we are. A DBA is usually a second or third step in IT and we we've looked to advance our understanding of technology. Jeffrey Yao now brings us a new level of database work to which we may aspire.
Two weeks ago Andy started his wildly successful series on Worst Practices. This week he continues that series discussing why failing to use primary keys and clustered indexes are worst practices. Agree or disagree, read the article and join the discussion. One thing you'll have to admit, reading an article by Andy is a lot more interesting than reading Books Online!
Often developers are tasked with not only developing functional code, but also with ensuring that the code they develop scales well and performs in the application environment.
New technologies often bring with them lots of new data. Steve Jones talks about some changes that we might see with new RFID technology being deployed in some industries.
What are the differences between SQL Server 2000 and 2005? It's a question that DBAs are often asked by those who don't work with SQL Server on a daily basis. Steve Jones begins a short series on the differences by examining some of the core administrative differences.
How to use XML to pass Multi-Select parameters from Reporting Services to SQL Server.
In this article we will share some of the common reasons for slow-running queries and what your approach should be for identifying and fixing them.
The need to test a program that accesses and manipulates a back-end SQL Server® database is very common. In many such cases, the application interacts with the back-end data through the use of SQL stored procedures. In this type of scenario, you can think of the stored procedures as auxiliary methods of the system under test; and they must therefore be tested just like any other module in the system.
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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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