Katie's Raffle
We've had more prizes donated for the raffle to raise money for Katie. See what you can win and support an IT family in need.
Professional Development Plans
Ensuring that our careers grow is something that each of us must take charge of and Andy Warren brings us one of the ways in which you can do this: create a plan. Andy talks about how you can structure a plan at different stages of your career.
Custom reports in Management Studio, using the Performance Dashboard
If you are using SSMS and SQL Server 2005 SP2, You've probably tried out the database reports that are available in the Performance Dashboard, and decided how useful they are, but did you know that you can create your own dashboard reports?
Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback to Participants
A new generation of computationally intensive scientific research projects relies on volunteers from around the world contributing idle computer time to calculate mathematical models. Many of these projects utilize a common architecture to manage the scheduling and distribution of calculations and collection of results from participants. User engagement is critical to the success of these projects, and feedback to participants illustrating their role in the project’s progress is known to increase interest and strengthen the community.
Server Farm Reporting - Part 2
Building on his first article examining management of a large server farm, Mark Tierney brings us part 2 in which he examines the data gathering process.
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.
Blogs
On Speaking Well
By Brian Kelley
Professor Patrick Winston of MIT used to give a one-hour talk about how to...
Monday Monitor Tips: Oracle Custom Metrics
By Steve Jones
One of the popular features of Redgate Monitor has been the ability to add...
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
Forums
Troubleshooting WQL in custom PBM conditions?
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Analysis of Locking Issues on Secondary Replicas in AlwaysOn Availability Groups
We have an AlwaysOn architecture with four replicas: two running in synchronous commit mode...
The Vector Data Type
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The Vector Data Type
What is the vector data type in SQL Server?
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