SQLServerCentral Webinar #25: Best Practices in Database Deployment (Part 1)
SQL Server Central Webinar #25: Best Practices in Database Deployment (Part 1)
SQLServerCentral Webinar #26: Best Practices in Database Deployment (Part 2)
Grant Fritchey (SQL Server MVP) and David Simner (Red Gate developer) give you a step-by-step guide of how you can automate your database deployment Process using Red Gate Deployment Manager.
Installing SQL Server 2014 CTP1
If you are interested in learning firsthand what new features are available, then you should download and install the new SQL Server bits. In this article Greg Larsen will walk you through preparing, downloading and the steps to install the SQL Server 2014 CTP1 release.
SQLServerCentral Webinar #17: Monitoring your SQL Server Instances
Join SQL Server MVP Brad McGehee to learn why it is so important to monitor your SQL Server instances and what you should consider when starting out. This webinar will also show you how you can use Red Gate's SQL Monitor for SQL Server monitoring and will include an overview of the new features released in v3.0, including the ability to create your own custom metric definition and to support different access permissions.
SQLServerCentral Webinar Series #10: SQL Server Backup and Restore for the Accidental DBA
Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM BST. Steve Jones will be your host to introduce Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVP and Product Evangelist at Red Gate Software.
This webinar will take you through the best practices, standards and methods that you can employ to ensure that you have solid backup processes for the databases under your charge. You’ll also learn how to restore, because your backups are only good if you can restore them. Grant will show you how using Red Gate’s SQL Backup Pro and SQL Virtual Restore can make all this easier and more efficient.
Sensors and Data
In the future we'll have a more programmable world, but it will be driven more by data than software.
New SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Percentage of Free Log Space
This metric measures the percentage of free space for transaction log files (LDF files). You’ll find this useful if your SQL Server has limited capacity, so you need to maximize existing disk space utilization by minimizing unused space. It will also alert you if the amount of free space drops below the specified thresholds.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) 2012 Top and Bottom Functions
Scott Murray has used the Top and Bottom T-SQL functions in SQL Server and wonders, do the same functions exist in the SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) or MDX? If so, how do they work? Can you provide some examples? Check out this tip to learn more.
If we can do it, so can you
Microsoft is trying to prove that development works well in the cloud by moving their own internal development to the Azure cloud.
SQL Saturday #228 Cambridge, UK
SQLSaturday #228 Cambridge is a training event for SQL Server professionals, Business Intelligence and SQL Server Developers and those just wanting to learn more about SQL Server. This event will consist of a pre-conference day on the 27th September and a free community day on the 28th September 2013.
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Designing SQL Server ETL Pipelines That Don't Break at Scale
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Detecting Deadlocks Quickly
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Detecting Deadlocks Quickly
In the Database Engine, when a deadlock is detected, what does the detection interval shrink to (in time)?
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