Day 30 as DBA This follow-on to the Day 1 as DBA show will go into the things you can do now that you’re semi-established in your routines. Daily maintenance, auditing, security checks, best practices and more. There is a lot to consider and think about when you’re putting a good foundation in place for your systems, we’ll cover check […]

Have You Seen the Special Edition SelectViews Shows? Security, SSIS, Reporting Services… all available now – watch here – and a new show will post Friday this week as well. Looking for Free SQL Server Tools? If you’re looking to get a leg up on backup, SQL Server permissions or even SQL Server monitoring, and think a great free tool […]

This Week’s SQL Server Show, SelectViews, is Live: (74) SelectViews: (Special Edition) – This week we’re going into security and SQL Server. Find out considerations, how-to and how SQL Server does security for your installations. >Watch the Show Here A SQL Server Farm is Tough to Manage… Unless you have the right tool. Multiple servers, no problem. Want to run […]

Keeping Up With SQL Server One of the issues I have with SQL Server, or managing them and the other things you have to do daily anyway, is that keeping on top of errors, logs and such is a LOT of information to keep track of. If you add to that the fact that you want to keep up with […]

Webcast: Day 30 as DBA This follow-on to the Day 1 as DBA show will go into the things you can do now that you’re semi-established in your routines. Daily maintenance, auditing, security checks, best practices and more. There is a lot to consider and think about when you’re putting a good foundation in place for your systems, we’ll cover […]

Featured Article(s) Understanding Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) In the earlier days of classic web development scenario, every time a page was requested for, it had to be submitted to the web server. Hence, the application’s response time increased because of repetitive pages refreshes and reloads. Ajax is a cross-platform technology that can be utilized to make your web pages […]

Don’t Miss The Latest SQL Server Show, SelectViews > Watch here – this week’s show is about understanding SSIS. What is "Vision" And Do You, As A DBA, Participate? Last week I posted a request for questions to be included in our survey of database professionals. One of the question suggestions I received (Thanks Jeremy!) was about vision. Specifically, do […]

Latest SelectViews SQL Server Show Posted We’ve had excellent feedback on our series of how-to shows that we started last week and are continuing this week. We’ll have our final in this series next week and are taking your feedback and suggestions on these as we go forward. Please keep the comments, suggestions, feedback and referrals coming! (Special Edition) – […]

Last Day to Catch Last Week’s Show > SelectViews: SQL Server Show: Getting Started with Reporting Services Power-Up Your SQL Server by Up To 500% By using some excellent technology to drive your SQL Server better, moving the TempDB file onto a RamDisk and running optimization software. At a fraction of the cost of new servers and peripherals, you can […]

Featured Article(s) Tips for using SQL Server 2005 Snapshot Replication (Part 2) Here are some helpful tips to performance tune and optimize SQL Server 2005 Snapshot Replication. Watch Now: Using SQL Agent to Automate Tasks with SQL Server Find out how to use the SQL Server Agent to run jobs automatically on your system. From maintenance to pulling information to […]