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Andy has written several good articles for us on maintenance plans - including some stuff that makes us a little more likely to use them! This week he talks about how and when old backups are removed by maintenance plans. A page turner! Well, it's only one page, but you know what we mean!
Recompilation yields superior performance in some situations, although excessive recompilation can be detrimental. This article will discuss some of these costs and benefits, and will draw on contrasts between different versions of SQL Server to provide further context for understanding recompilation.
Ever wonder who an MCDBA helps? Andy has posted the results of a recent survey of MCDBA's conducted by Dr. McKillip of Southern Illinois University. It's interesting reading. If you have time read and add your comments to the discussion!
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SQLServerCentral.com has now launched it's third Resource Center. This one focuses on giving the reader everything they need to know about licensing SQL Server. All links in this area are user contributed.
Andy sits down with an entry level book to see if he should use it at work as a teaching aid. Did he like it? Should you buy it? Read the review now!
LockwoodTech announces release of Auto-Audit 2.0, an entirely redesigned upgrade to it's popular SQL Auditing tool. Version 2.0 supports plug-in, customized audit architectures, scriptable trigger templates, a trigger and data management module, real data reports, and online analysis of audit data with grouping analysis.
The second part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL.
In this article by Randy Dyess he shares with you the script on how he audits his environment and outputs reports of the permissions that users have.
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