High Availability Lingo
You have got to love the way the SQL Server team change the lingo in all of their high availability...
2012-08-13
1,098 reads
Chris McGowan
Cost Savings and Backup Compression
Let me set the scene, one of our internal IT SQL Servers which stores a whole host of performance metrics...
2012-08-08
1,809 reads
Database Tables
Today I was asked for "a list of all tables in all databases" on a particular instance of SQL Server. ...
2012-06-13
866 reads
Rebuilding System Databases
Today’s post is something I thought I would share as there is an awful lot of incorrect commands I have...
2012-04-02
800 reads
Why I don’t like maintenance plans
If you create a maintenance plan (SQL 9.0.3042) to backup databases and select All databases as below;
Then at some point...
2012-03-16
888 reads
How Resilient Is Your Recovery Plan?
In this modern age of technology DBA’s face an ever increasing demand from businesses; our databases must perform, be secure,...
2012-03-14
601 reads
A Script A Day Finished!
Well that's it, my "A Script A Day" series is finished. I hope you found the scripts I provided useful, I've used...
2012-03-03
565 reads
A Script A Day - Day 28 - String Manipulation
Today’s script is one that I used earlier this week. On Thursday I migrated a server from SQL Server 200...
2012-03-02
520 reads
A Script A Day - Day 29 - The Importance of Being Idle
Today’s script is also one I used in my migration on Wednesday. It again uses string manipulation to generate a...
2012-03-02
515 reads
A Script A Day - Day 25 - Performance Counters
Today’s script is based on performance counters and in particular the sys.dm_performance_counters DMV. There are many ways in which to...
2012-02-29
2,295 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers