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

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

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

by Press Release

Redgate

SQL Monitor

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

by Additional Articles

MSSQLTips.com

Analysis Services (SSAS)

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

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

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

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SQLServerCentral.com

SQL Saturday

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.

The MCM Program is dead. Long live the MCMs!

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Grant Fritchey on why he takes a dim view of most certifications, and why the MCM was different.

Backup to the Cloud: The Silver Lining

by Additional Articles

SimpleTalk

Backups

Offsite backups are vital to data integrity, allowing for preservation and backup of data in catastrophic circumstances. Cloud backups have been around for a while, but are now really coming into their own. Tony Davis looks at how to get set up with cloud backups for restores and disaster recovery.

Risk and Assumptions

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Building software always involves risk, but in these tough times, Steve Jones thinks we should be working to lower the risk of IT projects.

Improved Application Availability During Online Operations in SQL Server 2014

by Additional Articles

Microsoft MSDN

SQL Server 2014

SQL Server 2014 introduces enhancements to two common database maintenance operations namely Partition Switching and Online Index Rebuild which greatly increases enterprise application availability by reducing maintenance downtime impact.

SQLServerCentral Webinar Series #10: SQL Server Backup and Restore for the Accidental DBA

Sensors and Data

New SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Percentage of Free Log Space

SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) 2012 Top and Bottom Functions

If we can do it, so can you

SQL Saturday #228 Cambridge, UK

The MCM Program is dead. Long live the MCMs!

Backup to the Cloud: The Silver Lining

Risk and Assumptions

Improved Application Availability During Online Operations in SQL Server 2014

Blogs

Redgate and Rome

Quick Tip: Check Most DTU Expensive Queries in Azure SQL Database

PowerShell Newbie – Variables

Forums

SSRS Is Dead. Here Are Your Real Options

The Distance Metric

The New Wave of Security Threats

Question of the Day

The Distance Metric