(Jessica Sirkin) Many DBAs have to work more and more nights and weekends to fulfill zero-downtime demands. But tools for monitoring and managing SQL Server might free up some of that time.
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Restore From Backup After Detach Operation
(Pinal Dave) While doing community work I travel a lot, speak at various conferences and get a chance to meet many new faces. The best part is that I get a chance to hear a variety of issues which people face while using SQL Server.
Implicit Conversions Can Be An Unseen Danger
(Shaun J Stuart) I got an email from one of my developers regarding a process they had developed in-house. The process has been taking longer and longer to run and it had reached the point where the application was timing out while waiting for a response from the database. Some investigating reveale
My DTS Package won’t load with the error ‘here were errors loading package’
(Kenneth Fisher) You are trying to open a DTS package (yes some people still use DTS packages) and receive the following error:
SQL Server Table Partition Example
(Derek Wilson) Data warehouses and data repositories often have tables that store millions of records and each day adding thousands more. As the data ages, the older records generally require fewer updates. If all of these records are kept in a single physical table. Queries and maintenance on th
Tracking Progress of SQL Server Index Builds and Rebuilds
(Matan Yungman) Let’s say you build or rebuild an index in SQL Server. Your users and boss are anxious to know when the table will stop being blocked and when their precious queries will run fast. What can you tell them?
The Importance of Consistent Compliance and Ways to Achieve it
The Importance of Consistent Compliance and Ways to achieve it Why do we require consistent compliance? It has a very simple answer – audits can occur any time and you don’t want to be blacklisted by regulators. Stringent compliance policies were brought into action in the wake of exponential fiascos that uprooted businesses and public-sector organizations. Moreover, consistent compliance is...
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PowerShell and Text Mining Part I: Word Counts, Positions and Libraries
(Tim Smith) We’ve been evaluating text mining and are currently considering different approaches on how we can import and analyze the SQL Server data. As an organization familiar with numerical data, we have little experience with the basics of text mining for SQL Server and are curious about some o
Saving the MessageBoxViewer output to a SQL Server database
(Agustín Mántaras) The MessageBox viewer tool allow you to save the output in a SQL Server database.
Introduction to Azure SQL Database Scalability
(Marcin Policht) One of the primary advantages of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions offered by Microsoft Azure is the ease with which scaling can be implemented. This typically applies to both vertical and horizontal scaling, allowing you to change (respectively) the current pricing tier (along