This metric is useful if you want to know exactly how much physical space a particular table is taking up, including the size of its indexes. If a database is growing quickly within a short time and you suspect a certain table is responsible, you can monitor its actual size, or the rate at which it is increasing.
Robyn Page's crib sheet was a Simple-Talk classic, providing a terse but thorough roadmap of all of the important SQL Server backup-related considerations. It returns, newly revised for SQL Server 2014.
If your companies first foray into Big Data project starts with a big cheque then you are doing it wrong!
SQL Server 2014 comes with a set of enhancements as compared to its processors that brings a lot of business benefits to the applications in OLTP and OLAP environments. This articles highlights a few key enhancements that are built into the product.
I want to embed code into my SQL Server Reporting Servers (SSRS) to allow special formatting for report output. How do I implement and deploy this code and what functionality can use this embedded code?
Use Powershell to create a single script that checks over your server and every SQL instance on it to help pinpoint problems.
SQL Saturday will come to Atlanta on May 3, 2014. This is a free, full-day event of SQL Server training and networking. SQL Saturday #285 also has 3 (paid for) pre-con sessions available run by Kalen Delaney, Teo Lachev, and Denny Cherry. Make sure to register for SQL Saturday while spaces are available.
Originally one of the articles in the first DBA Team series, Grant wonders what Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett would have done if asked to write technical articles for Simple-Talk. He came up with the DBA detective, hard-boiled Joe Dee Beay.
This article demonstrates how to selectively channel records from a flat-file data source to separate destination tables in an SSIS package using a combination of multicast, data-conversion and conditional-split data flow transformation elements within a data flow task.
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