How often do you have those fire drills, testing what you would do in the event of an emergency. Would you be satisfied with a 30% success rate?

Fire Drills

by Steve Jones

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Editorial - WMV

How often do you have those fire drills, testing what you would do in the event of an emergency. Would you be satisfied with a 30% success rate?

Screencast: Tracking memory with PerfMon counters

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Performance Monitoring

Learn how to use SQL Server PerfMon counters to track Windows memory. SQL Server MVP Kevin Kline explains the maximum numbers to watch for when using PerfMon memory counters.

The curse and blessings of dynamic SQL

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Dynamic SQL

How you use dynamic SQL, when you should - and when you should not.

SQL Server Data Services

by Tony Davis

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Editorial

SQL Server isn’t used much for web-based applications, simply because the cheapest ISPs use Linux and Apache for their platform. There are ISPs that provide a .NET platform and SQL Server but it is at a cost. SSDS seems to be Microsoft’s latest attempt to break into the market for database-driven websites.

SQL Server DBA Fights a Demon

by David Bird

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Administration

An interesting tale of David Bird's fight with tempdb.

SSDS

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

We have a new acronym for the SQL Server family: SSDS

Understanding DDL Triggers in SQL Server 2005

by S. Srivathsani

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Security

SQL Server 2005 includes a number of new security enhancements to aid the DBA in managing their SQL Server. DDL triggers allow you to trap all kinds of DDL events that occur on your server. S. Srivathsani brings us a look at these new events.