Managing Power BI Workspaces with PowerShell
In this article we look at how to manage Power BI workspaces using PowerShell cmdlets.
2020-11-02
Articles
SQL IntelliSense and Autocomplete in SSMS
Phil Factor reviews the major features of SSMS IntelliSense and autocomplete and then explains how SQL Prompt fills in the gaps, and how to use to use the two in tandem to 'get the best of both worlds'.
2020-11-02
Efficiently Polling Remote Data Sources
In this article, Edward Pollack describes some of the issues when querying against remote data sources. He covers remote SQL Servers and also connecting to a PostgreSQL database.
2020-10-30
Better SQL Server Agent Job Failure Monitoring
SQL Server Agent has a built-in alerting process for when jobs fail, but the information it provides isn’t very useful. You’re only told which job, what time, who ran it, and which step failed. If you want to see why it failed, you have to review the job history manually. On a busy system with […]
2020-10-29
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2020-10-29
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Adding Custom Stored Procedure Templates to SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio 2019
In this article we look at how to build a custom stored procedure template that can be used in either SSMS or Visual Studio for all new development.
2020-10-29
Create a Feedback Loop between Devs and DBA Teams with Monitoring
With remote working still encouraged around the world, there is a need to ensure that operations teams have full visibility of your estate, not just your production servers. If your engineering teams have access to secure development and testing servers, deployment issues are caught before they reach production. Find out how to keep communication flowing between DBA and development teams in this free whitepaper. Read the whitepaper here.
2020-10-29
Free eBook: SQL Server Transaction Log Management
When a SQL Server database is operating smoothly and performing well, there is no need to be particularly aware of the transaction log, beyond ensuring that every database has an appropriate backup regime and restore plan in place. When things go wrong, however, a DBA's reputation depends on a deeper understanding of the transaction log, both what it does, and how it works.
2020-10-28 (first published: 2013-08-14)
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Why choose Oracle?
Oracle has been established as one of the top database systems used in enterprises throughout the world. In this article, Cynthia Dzikiti describes her career as an Oracle application developer and covers some of the benefits of Oracle.
2020-10-28
Recovering Databases From a Master Backup
Losing your instance might result in the need to get information from what you have. Steve Jones looks at a way to get the proper version and patch, and database list, from what limited resources you might have.
2020-10-27
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