Grant has advice on how you can prepare your career for the future.

Best Option for Working with Files in SSIS

by Daniel Calbimonte

SQLServerCentral.com

Integration Services (SSIS)

This time we will compare different solutions to copy system folders using different SSIS tasks.

DR Priority

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Today Steve asks about HA and DR. What compromises and choices do you make in your environment and how do you ensure your clients can get to their data.

Recover SQL Server Resource Database

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MSSQLTips.com

Resource Database

SQL Server Post Update Failure | Troubleshooting - In this tip we look at the steps to recover missing SQL Server mssqlsystemresource database files that cause SQL Server not to startup. This can occur when an update to SQL Server does not complete successfully therefore making these files absent from the folder where they need to reside.

SQL Clone PowerShell Scripting: The Basics

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Redgate

Phil Factor demonstrates some simple examples of how to use SQL Clone's PowerShell library to pass objects between cmdlets, and simplify common tasks, such as creating and deploying clones from various images. He then documents the objects and cmdlets, and illustrates their inputs and outputs.

The Redgate Way

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Steve talks about the DevOps journey that Redgate started and is still walking.

How to Think Like the SQL Server Engine: Using Statistics to Build Query Plans

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Brent Ozar Blog

statistics

Every index has a matching statistic with the same name, and each statistic is a single 8KB page of metadata that describes the contents of your indexes. Stats have been around (and been mostly the same) for forever, so this is one of the places where SQL Server’s documentation really shines: Books Online has a ton of information about statistics. You honestly don’t need to know most of that – but if you wanna make a living performance tuning, there’s a ton of great stuff in there.

Large estate monitoring at BMW

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Redgate

SQL Monitoring

Managing 100s of business-critical servers across multiple continents became a struggle for BMW. SQL Monitor provided a fast and powerful solution that allowed them to scale to their business needs. Availability has since increased to 100% and doubled the speed of delivery. Learn how here.