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Grant Fritchey explains how database best practices should be followed more like those in Ham radio.
In this article, we discuss how schema swapping method can be used to keep tables online during the load process.
Your company is ignoring the news: SQL Server 2008 and 2008R2 are officially out of support as of today, but nothing’s changing at your company. You still have SQL Server 2008 in production, and you’re a little nervous. How should you approach the conversations with management? Brent Ozar will help: he;s been there too.
If you plan to make production data available for development and test purposes, you'll need to understand which columns contain personal or sensitive data, create a data catalog to record those decisions, devise and implement a data masking, and then provision the sanitized database copies. Richard Macaskill show how to automate as much of this process as possible.
In this article, learn how one DBA solved a query timeout issue with an application by examining the effects that different temporary objects have on query performance.
Users cause lots of security issues, and we ought to try to work within that framework, with the understanding the we can't prevent all problems.
Last week Andy launched a new series about Worst Practices by talking about why the Hungarian naming convention is bad for column names. This week he's at it again, declaring that the practice of having objects owned by anyone other than dbo is BAD! Agree or disagree, we think you'll enjoy reading this article and adding your thoughts to the discussion!
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By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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