Developer Pressure
As we ask developers to deliver software quicker, are we helping improve the quality of software? Steve Jones asks the question today.
SQL Server Error Log Scanning
This article will show you how to scan SQL Server Error Logs with ease and track important information that is stored there.
SQL Licensing - What Managers Need to Know
PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter will be hosting a session on what managers need to know about SQL Licensing, presented by Joseph D'Antonio on September 11, 2013.
SQL Saturday #244 Johannesburg
SQL Saturday is coming to Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday, September 14 2013. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking.
Techniques For Improving SQL Query Performance - Indexing, Parameterization and Partitioning
You are tasked with examining poor performance for queries on a certain table, or range of tables. Perhaps a sales report is timing out or running unacceptably slow; perhaps your web application is failing to return the result set before the application timeout is reached. You need to find out what's causing the bottleneck, and optimize either the queries used, the table schemata, or both.
Good and Bad Interview Questions
Are there good and bad interview questions? Are there some you prefer or hate? Steve Jones comments on some of the strange ones out there and how hiring is changing.
Monitoring job history using Reporting Services
Easily monitoring your SQL Agent job history using SSRS for concurrency, job lenght and job status.
Getting Data between Excel and SQL Server using ODBC
With ODBC, you can summarise, and select just the data you need, in an Excel workbook before importing it into SQL Server. You can join data from different areas or worksheets. You can even get data from the result of a SQL Server SELECT statement into an Excel spreadsheet. Phil Factor shows how, and warns of some of the pitfalls.
It's not you; it's us
The announcement that the MCM program was being discontinued brings us a few thoughts from Gail Shaw, one of the 0.08% to achieve the certification.
New Enhanced Column Store Index in SQL Server 2014 – Part 1
Column Store Index, which improves performance of data warehouse queries several folds, was first introduced in SQL Server 2012. Unlike regular indexes or heaps, which store data in B-Tree structure (in row-wise fashion), the column store index stores data in columnar fashion and uses compression aggressively to reduce the disk I/O needed to serve the query request. In this article, Arshad Ali talks about the new enhanced columnstore index feature in SQL Server 2014.
Blogs
Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
By Steve Jones
I’m off on vacation today. Which is a little weird as I just got...
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
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