Reap the Benefits of SQL Server's New Database Tuning Advisor
The Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) is an improvement over the old Index Tuning Wizard. Learn how to access the advanced features of DTA from the command line with a custom configuration.
SSIS Training
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Agile Development and ICONIX
Lightweight and adaptable, but with proper emphasis on the design phase, the ICONIX methodology can help you avoid Constant Refactoring After Programming...
Further Your Career
Training is an important part of anyone's life in technology, especially if you are a SQL Server DBA or developer. With the release of 2005, the entire paradigm of working with SQL Server has changed and you need to be working on your own personal knowledge base. Steve Jones takes a look at how you can get training and shake the funding loose as well.
To SP or not to SP in SQL Server: an argument for stored procedures
A seemingly never-ending battle in online database forums involves the question of whether or not database application development should involve the use of stored procedures.
Management Issues - SSAS 2005
For those of you using Analysis Services, Yaniv Mor takes a look at some of the manageablity tools with SQL Server 2005. The way you work with Analysis Services and your cubes has changed dramatically and this is a good overview to get you started.
The May SQL Server Standard
Better late than never, here's a look at the May issue of the SQL Server Standard, now available as a PDF.
Quickly Viewing Available Space
As everyone moves to SQL Server 2005 from SQL Server 2000, there are quite a few pieces of information that have moved and may give you trouble finding. Boris Balinger brings us a followup to his first look at some of those changes with a quick article on how you can get the free space in your database files.
Strategy, Tactics, and Business Intelligence
There is a lot of talk these days about “business intelligence” (BI for short). Pick up any magazine aimed at business or technology professionals, and you’re sure to read about things like data warehouses, dashboards, cubes, ETL, SCD, and a seemingly endless list of other specialized terms and acronyms. One might be left wondering, is this something to which I should be paying attention?
XML - Good and Bad
XML is becoming more and more the mainstream for data transfers between systems. Web services and SOAP communications are built into SQL Server 2005, requiring the more and more DBAs understand how to work with XML. Raj Vasant has written a number of articles on XML and brings us a look at how XML should and should not be used.
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
Forums
that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
Local Agents
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Detecting Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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