Happy Thanksgiving 2016

Thanksgiving wishes from SQLServerCentral.

5 Advantages of Load Balancing For IT Companies

As an IT company, it is crucial that you maintain uptime and monitor the performance of various processes. By making database load balancing a key element, you can ensure that your processes and websites run smoothly. Tony Branson explains.

Byte Me: Wrong turn

Configuring Integration Services in a SQL Server 2016 Cluster

In this post I will show a procedure to configure Integration Services in a SQL Server 2016 Cluster.

Monitor All the Changes

Today Steve Jones looks at the potential downfalls of monitoring every change without lots of filtering.

Why Would I Ever Need to Partition My Big ‘Raw’ Data?

Whether you are running an RDBMS, or a Big Data system, it is important to consider your data-partitioning strategy. As the volume of data grows, so it becomes increasingly important to match the way you partition your data to the way it is queried, to allow 'pruning' optimisation. When you have huge imports of data to consider, it can get complicated. Bartosz explains how to get things right; not perfect but wisely.

Service Broker Error Handling

How to handle errors raised during Service Broker Queue Processing.

What is Normal?

Phil Factor on the virtues of "over normalizing"

Wow. Just Wow

Today Steve Jones looks at the loss of a database backup on a public website.

Implementing a custom sort

Rob Farley discusses some solutions and gotchas for implementing a custom sort using ORDER BY in T-SQL queries.