Although many of the important tasks a DBA has to perform should be done 'by hand', keying in commands or using SSMS, the canny DBA with a heavy workload will always have an eye to automating routine tasks wherever possible, or using a tool.
Are all RDBMS heading towards "The Cloud"? Is this something we DBAs and consultants should be doing for our client?
You have been asked to deploy a brand new SQL Server instance. Your management asks you to come up with the best balance of availability, performance and cost for SQL Server. Richard Vantrease has some recommendations.
Tthe term DBA is too broad and we should strive to institute more granular terms.
Join SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey and other SQL Server professionals for a free day of training and networking at SQL Saturday Louisville, June 21. This is a free event, however there are also two paid-for precons available, run by Grant Fritchey and David Fackler. Register for SQL Sat while space is available.
SQL Server User-Defined Functions are good to use in most circumstances, but there just a few questions that rarely get asked on the forums. It's a shame, because the answers to them tend to clear up some ingrained misconceptions about functions that can lead to problems, particularly with locking and performance
Lowering the bar for entry does not mean lowering the bar for quality. New to SQL Server? Find out where to start.
This article provides a short PowerShell script to extrace data from a database using PowerShell.
In a SSIS data flow, there are multiple types of transformations. On one hand you have synchronous and asynchronous transformations, but on the other hand you have non-blocking, semi-blocking and fully-blocking components. In this tip, Koen Verbeeck takes a closer look on the performance impact of semi-blocking transformations in SSIS.
Cursors are considered by many to be the bane of good T-SQL. What are the best ways to avoid iterative T-SQL and to write queries that look and perform beautifully? In the next part of an ongoing series, we look at ways to efficiently retrieve recently modified data.
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In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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