Lessons from Little Green Army Men

• by Andy Warren

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Editorial

Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at digging deeper into stereotypes and deeper learning.

Azure Data Factory vs SSIS vs Azure Databricks

• by Additional Articles

• MSSQLTips.com

• Azure Data Factory

In this article we cover some things you should consider when determining whether to use Azure Data Factory, SSIS or Azure Databricks.

The importance of remote monitoring

• by Additional Articles

• Redgate

Monitoring should be able to happen no matter where you are located. This year organizations around the globe had to adapt to many new challenges including a distributed workforce and managing their estate when they can’t be in the office. This blog outlines the reasons and benefits of adopting remote monitoring.

How Bad are Bad Page Splits – The Rest of the Story

• by Mike Byrd

• SQLServerCentral

• Index Rebuild
• Indexes
• page
• Paging Data

In Part 1 of this article we looked at a specific use case (probably exaggerated) that gave us an idea about how CPU and IO performance might be affected by a bad page split. We continue this analysis looking at what really happens to the data on the leaf pages of a clustered index with […]

Your Best Day

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral

• Career

Today Steve asks about your best day as a DBA.

Easily manage SQL Server licensing with SQL Monitor 10.1

• by Additional Articles

• Redgate

• monitor
• Monitoring
• SQL Monitor
• SQL Monitoring

SQL Monitor 10.1 now gives you a comprehensive overview of your SQL Server licensing, so you know which licenses are in use, and which versions are on which servers. This simplifies license auditing and lets you unearth misconfigurations that could potentially cost you money. The new version also integrates with Microsoft Teams and Splunk, and supports complex Active Directory environments.

Tempdb – Here’s a Problem You Didn’t Know You Have

• by Additional Articles

• SimpleTalk

• SQL Performance

Because of its many roles, tempdb is the source of performance issues in SQL Server, and there are recommended configuration changes to mitigate this. In this article, Fabiano Amorim demonstrates another issue with tempdb performance that you probably didn’t know about.

A 2020 Look at Software Developers

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral

• Career

The results of a survey on software developers has some interesting insights.

Stairway to U-SQL Level 22: Creating a Custom Extractor

• by Mike McQuillan

• SQLServerCentral

• Stairway Series
• U-SQL

Throughout this series, we’ve consistently dealt with delimited text files; comma and tab, for instance. We’ve used the U-SQL built-in extractors to process these files. But what if we need to deal with different types of file, like JSON, XML or fixed width? That’s where custom extractors come in. U-SQL provides us with the ability […]

Free eBook: Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views

• by Additional Articles

• Redgate

• Performance Tuning

Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) are a significant and valuable addition to the DBA's troubleshooting armory, laying bare previously unavailable information regarding the under-the-covers activity of your database sessions and transactions.