When you're monitoring SQL Server, it's better to capture a baseline for those aspects that you're checking, such as workload, Physical I/O or performance. Once you know what is normal, then performance tuning and resource provisioning can be done in a timely manner before any problems becomes apparent. We can prevent problems by being able to predict them. Louis shows how to get started.
SQL Saturday is returning to St Louis for a full day of free SQL Server training and networking. This year's event will be on August 3, 2013 at the Saint Louis University's Center for Workforce & Organizational Development. We hope to see you there.
This article contains a set of instructions for configuring SQL Server mirroring, including pre-requisites. It also includes notes on how to resolve a few issues that I have encountered.
This article will show a way to find all SQL Servers, particularly those that have been forgotten about or lost.
Today we have a guest editorial from Phil Factor that looks at NoSQL databases.
Phil Factor leafs through a few of his PowerShell books in his library, and considers which are his favorites
Steve Jones presents some disaster stories with ideas on how you might prevent, or mitigate the effects, of those problem situations.
The report function, lookup, can be used to link two independent datesets.
With the massive number of servers running SQL Server within virtual machines (VMs), it's critically important for DBAs to understand the high availability options available when SQL Server is running within a VM.
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I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
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