For an experienced programmer to learn a new language can be a journey quite like Alice's in wonderland. Paradoxes, unexpected twists, blind tangents, bafflements and nice surprises. Michael Sorens comes to the rescue of anyone learning PowerShell with an explanation of how to use PowerShell functions.
2011-08-03
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2011-08-02 (first published: 2009-07-08)
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Learn how to add those indexes you need in part 3 of Matt Perdeck's 8 part series on improving data access. This is based on the book ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets.
2011-08-02
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In this article, Brad McGehee takes a brief look at four resource intensive queries that are running on the SQL Server instance that runs the SQLServerCentral.com website. Don't miss out on the competition in this article.
2011-08-02
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A discrete list of database objects is extracted from SSRS using SQL, SSIS, and RegExtractor in order to identify reports that might break when a schema upgrade is performed.
2011-08-01
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Are Common Language Runtime routines in SQL Server faster or slower than the equivalent T-SQL code? How would you go about testing the relative performance objectively? Solomon Rutzky creates a test framework to try to answer the question and comes up with some surprising results that you can check for yourself.
2011-08-01
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Come join Steve Jones for a day of SQL Server training in Baton Rouge on Aug 6, 2011. Free training!
2011-08-01 (first published: 2011-07-08)
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Continuing with his series on monitoring your SQL Servers, David Bird now looks a a way to fin those long running, active jobs.
2011-07-29 (first published: 2010-03-24)
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Write your database backup to multiple files. In addition to writing your database backup to one file you have the ability to write to multiple files at the same time and therefore split up the workload. The advantage to doing this is that the backup process can run using multiple threads and therefore finish faster as well as having much smaller files that can be moved across the network or copied to a CD or DVD.
2011-07-29
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2011-07-28 (first published: 2009-07-01)
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Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster,...
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
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