How SQL Server monitoring benefits your whole organization.
The 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring report showed how instrumental monitoring is to managing server estates. In this guide, we go further, demonstrating how monitoring can benefit your entire organization. From development to IT management, and from finance to the C-suite. Download your free copy of the guide today
Best Practices and Band Plans
Grant Fritchey explains how database best practices should be followed more like those in Ham radio.
Keeping tables online during loading with schema swapping using SSIS
In this article, we discuss how schema swapping method can be used to keep tables online during the load process.
Help! SQL Server 2008 is Still Here!
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.
Practical steps for end-to-end data protection
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.
How to Unclog SQL Server
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.
The Problem with Users
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.
Blogs
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
VPN + SQL Server Connections: Why Long-Working Setups Suddenly Fail with Msg 10054 and “Connection Broken”
By Tim Radney
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contacted by multiple customers experiencing the same...
Future IT Roles – Agentic Architect and AI Boom!!
By Vinay Thakur
These days everything is changing to AI World, IT roles are getting changed and...
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SSoL Support on the OS
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