Mini-Me
This Friday Steve Jones asks if you build your own mini-me's to help you manage your database systems.
Adding SQL Server AlwaysOn to existing Failover Clusters
We have a SQL Failover Cluster Instance in our primary data center, and want to implement a second two node Failover Cluster Instance in our secondary data center. A new two node cluster located in our secondary data center was setup, but I could not create a new High Availability Group between the two failover cluster instances. What went wrong?
SQL Saturday #275 - Copenhagen
SQL Saturday is coming to Denmark on March 29, 2014. This a free event of SQL Server training and networking. The full schedule is up (and it's full of great speakers) on the SQL Saturday site and make sure to say hello at the Red Gate booth while you're there.
One size does not fill all
Allowing your application to generate your SQL can be a really bad decision.
Big Data: Integration with Little Data
If we want to incorporate big data into our enterprise, it's crucial to know how to integrate it with our existing data.
Vote Now: Final Service Packs for 2008/2008 R2
Microsoft has continued to release Cumulative Updates, with each one specifying that customers should wait for the next service pack if they don't experience an issue. However, no Service Packs have been released for some time. Let Microsoft know we want Service Packs.
Junk Drawer
Dale Newman created open source project called Junk Drawer. It's goal is to make the majority of Excel or text file importing a one step, no-brainer process without using the Import Wizard.
Fixing Cache Bloat Problems With Guide Plans and Forced Parameterization
Imagine it. You've been asked to fix a dire performance problem with a SQL Server database. You find a severe case of 'Cache Bloat' due to ad-hoc queries, but you can't fix the code itself. What should you do? Specify forced parameterization? Perhaps a better idea would be to use guide plans.
SQLSaturday #269: SQL South West, Exeter, UK
SQL South West user group are running their second SQL Saturday on March 21st and 22nd and have another spectacular schedule of technical content from SQL Server professionals from the UK, Europe and USA including SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft staff. All the session details and how to register for the full-day pre-con sessions or the free-to-attend Saturday:
Blogs
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Forums
Pro SQL Server Internals
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SQL ART: Who's Blocking Who? Visualising SQL Server Blocking With Spatial Geometry
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Running SQLCMD II
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers