TempDB – Relocate the TempDB Database Files
I took control of a new server recently and noticed that Tempdb was not configured to best practice. It was...
2010-03-28
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Gethyn Ellis
SQL Server 2008 Activity Monitor
For those people who like to use the Activity Monitor in the SQL Server Management Studio GUI instead of, or...
2010-03-25
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Managing Your Backup Files
I recently posted a couple of scripts that backup all databases on your SQL Server instance to disk with a...
2010-03-23
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Script: Transaction Log Backup
My last post showed a little script that I use for taking full backups of all my databases on an...
2010-03-21
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Script: Backup All your Databases
We all know the importance of taking regular backups of our SQL Server databases. This is a useful little script...
2010-03-18
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Enabling Filestreaming in SQL Server 2008
This is a short post on enabling file streaming. I have read a few sources that cover the same topic...
2010-03-16
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Setting Up a Server Side Trace
Recently I wrote a short post on the default trace in SQL Server. You can read that here. In this...
2010-03-14
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Setup Database Snapshot against a Mirrored Database (Part 2)
This post is the second post in my series about Database mirroring. For part one is titled Configuring Database Mirroring...
2010-03-11
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TSQL Tuesday #4: IO
“IO IO, It’s off to disk we go!” was in Mike Walsh’s blog post that introduced this TSQL Tuesday and...
2010-03-09
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Configuring Database Mirroring in SQL Server
I plan on writing a series of posts on database mirroring, this is the first. Database Mirroring is a new...
2010-03-07
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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