Add a linear trendline to a graph in SQL Server Reporting Services
In this article, Koen Verbeeck illustrates how to add a linear trendline to a graph in SSRS, similar to the way it would appear if done Excel.
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Identity Columns Near Limit
If your application relies on identity columns, this metric is a useful measure of the number of identity columns that are near to the limit per database. You can then avoid logical problems in your application and SQL Server errors.
Adding an Article Without a Full Snapshot
Have you got transactional replication in your SQL environment? Do you need to add a new table to your publication, but can't afford the time necessary to create a full new snapshot? Here is a step-by-step guide. Thankfully, adding a single table is easier than I thought.
DBA of the World
Conference travel enhances our minds with more than just SQL. It exposes us to new cultures, people and possibilities.
Staying Successful
What helps people be successful in a company? Perhaps a little analytic work can help employers determine this.
Salesforce: A Very Straightforward Cloud Development Platform
Force.com is an enigma; a Platform-as-a-Service that is designed to appeal to a broad church of developers, to make it quick and easy to write simple cloud-based applications. Robert Sheldon explains, as simply as possible, why this unusual data-centric, and metadata-driven platform is attracting so much interest in the industry.
Creating a heat map in Reporting Services
Use custom assemblies to generate a heat map matrix in SQL Server Reporting Services
Growing Your SQL Server Skills without Breaking the Bank
Learning more about SQL Server doesn't have to cost a small fortune. If you're willing to invest the time, you can learn.
What's Coming True?
Steve Jones looks forward to the new year and asks in this poll what you think will happen.
High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Small Businesses
Too often in the past, High Availability and Disaster Recovery have been marketed as expensive choices for businesses with deep pockets. The truth is that, with careful planning, there are sensible and economic solutions for small businesses that can maintain business continuity when disaster strikes.
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
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that one limitation in replication
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Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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