Case Study: Denver International Airport Keeps Operations/IT (and Pass
AlarmPoint Enterprise automates alerting process and protects airport's massive information and communications network from business-impacting outages.
Compatibility of SQL Server 2005 and 2000 coexisting
When installing a SQL Server 2005 instance on your SQL 2000 machine, there are upgrade and compability issues such as linked servers, multi-server administration and log shipping.
Using Non-Standard Port for SQL Server
Greg Larsen examines setting up SQL Server to listen on a different port number than 1433.
What Data is in SQL Server's Memory?
SQL Server memory is primarily used to store data (buffer) and query plans (cache). In this article I'll show how much memory is allocated to the data buffer (or RAM). I'll explain how to determine what tables and indexes are in the buffer memory of your server.
A Simple Approach to SQL Server 2005 Encryption
SQL Server 2005 has added encryption capabilities to the platform, much to the delight of many DBAs. However setting up encryption can be confusing and difficult for most DBAs. New author Mike Good brings us a perspective from someone who is brand new to this set of features and has spent time working through the functions and documenting them for the rest of us.
Data Warehousing: Ensuring Data Integrity with End-to-End and Statisti
This article provides an architecture and process framework to ensure data quality in a data warehousing environment.
SQLCLR Security and Designing for Reuse
SQL Server's CREATE ASSEMBLY statement lets you catalog code with one of three predefined security buckets. But under the covers, there are actually two distinct security models at play: Code Access Security and Host Protection, and you need to understand both.
Server Farm Reporting - Part 1
Managing a large number of servers can be quite the challenge for many DBAs and it seems to get worse each year as more servers are added without an increase in staffing. New author Mark Tierney brings us the first part of a series on the framework he's built to help manage his servers.
T-SQL error handling with Try…Catch blocks
T-SQL Try…Catch block for SQL Server exception handling has new, improved functions to handle errors when executing T-SQL code in SQL Server 2005.
Blogs
PowerShell Remoting for SQL DBAs: WinRM + SSH Guide (Updated 2026)
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The 2026 Redgate Summit in New York City
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We’re coming back to New York, which is exciting for me. I love NYC....
Monitoring Fabric Mirroring for SQL 2025
I previously wrote about how the underlying technology for Fabric mirroring changed with SQL...
Forums
Why SQL Server Orphaned Users Cause Login Failures
SQL Server Orphaned Users often appear after restoring or migrating a database to another...
Seeding a Fabric Warehouse with dbt for Visual Studio Code: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Question of the Day
Historical Data Tracking
If I want to track historical data values, which mechanism should I use?
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