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Reporting v Editing
In response to his article on using Reporting Services to manage rights, Jonathan Spink takes a look at how Reporting Services can be positioned in your enterprise.
Speak Like a T-SQL Developer
In this video by Kathi Kellenberger, she starts beginners interested in T-SQL programming the teminology and some of the basiics of T-SQL. She also covers the what the various editions of SQL Server mean and the tools that you will use.
Identifying Unused Objects in a Database
Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich answers one of the most common questions seen in discussion areas around the world: how do you identify unused objects?
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services - Message Queue Task - Part 32
After concluding a broad overview of various aspects of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, part 32 of this series focuses on individual components that have more specialized, but very useful characteristics, starting by discussing the Message Queue Control Flow task, and following with coverage of a number of Data Flow transformations.
Detroit Area SQL Server User Group
The next meeting of the Detroit Area SQL Server User Group is September 14th.
Learning SQL Server 2005
Everyone wants to get ahead of the curve with SQL Server 2005, but many people don't have the time or desire to dig through a Google search. Steve Jones has gotten quite a few requests for resources, so here is a compiled list of some places that might help you get started.
Copying Database Backups to an Alternative Location
Learn how to use ALERTs, a SQL Agent job and a stored procedure (SP) to create a copy of your critical database backups on another physical machine as soon as the database backups are created.
Windows Utilities for the SQL Server DBA
This article is a short summary of Windows utilities both GUI and command line intended for new SQL Server DBAs or those interested in learning some useful techniques.
SQL Server 2005 Common Table Expressions
A CTE is a "temporary result set" that exists only within the scope of a single SQL statement. It allows access to functionality within that single SQL statement that was previously only available through use of functions, temp tables, cursors, and so on.
Blogs
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
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If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
Forums
SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
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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