Habits and Familiarity
A new series about kicking bad habits reminds Steve Jones that there are good and bad sides to having set practices. Even the best habits you have in technology will likely need to evolve over time.
MDX Guide for SQL Folks: Part I - Navigating The Cube
Learn all you need to know about MDX, by drawing only on your current SQL knowledge.
Setting Up Your SQL Server Agent Correctly
It is important to set up SQL Server Agent Security on the principles of 'executing with minimum privileges’, and ensure that errors are properly logged and alerts are set up for a comprehensive range of errors. SQL Server Agent allows fine-grained control of every job step that should allow tasks to be run entirely safely even if they occasionally need special privileges.
SQL Server Performance Tuning with Hypothetical Indexes
Daniel Farina demonstrates how to create and test hypothetical indexes with the undocumented DBCC AUTOPILOT command.
Logging in Maintenance Plans
Enabling and Configuring Reporting and Logging for Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 2012
Database Delivery Patterns and Practices
The articles collected here will help you understand the theories and methodologies behind every stage of the database delivery pipeline, starting when database changes are checked in, and ending when they're deployed to production.
Survey: Which new database platforms are you adopting?
Database technologies are always improving, which database platforms will you be using tomorrow? Red Gate wants to stay ahead to make sure you have the tools you need to do awesome work. Help us by completing this short survey.
Stairway to Database Source Control Level 2: Getting a Database into Source Control
In this level, we're going to continue the philosophy of learning by example, and get a database into our SVN repository. We will also consider our overall approach to source control for databases, and the manner in which our team will develop these databases, concurrently.
Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Forums
SQL Server Storage Optimization: Multiple Files in a Filegroup vs Dedicated File
Hello, I would like to get some feedback regarding the best storage optimization strategy...
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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