Seven Reasons You Should Attend SQLBits 7
SQLBits is Europe’s Largest SQL Server Event
That’s right, just take a moment to let that point hit home. If you...
2010-07-22
866 reads
John Sansom
Simplify Your DBCC CHECKDB Output
"Defend Your Data"
If you’re a SQL Server Database Administrator and you don’t know what CHECKDB is then you need to...
2010-07-14
521 reads
Jump Start Your SQL Server Learning Today (T-SQL Tuesday)
One of the great things about working with SQL Server is the opportunity to be involved in our fantastic SQL...
2010-07-13
577 reads
How to Provide Great Feedback
As a DBA you will encounter processes, code and design decisions within your environment that require change for the better....
2010-07-01
609 reads
The Politics of SQL Server Performance
Like most DBA’s I’m sure you often find yourself delivering information to the business concerning the performance of your SQL...
2010-06-30
1,516 reads
How much memory is each SQL Server database using?
Whilst perusing the forums over at SQL Server Central today I stumbled across an interesting question regarding how to identify...
2010-06-25
563 reads
With Great Advice Comes Great Responsibility
I know that you have seen it yourself too. That forum or blog post that contains “advice” that is daft,...
2010-05-02
571 reads
Part 2: Why you should be using the Full Recovery Model
Part 2 of the SQL Server Essentials Series looks at why you should be using the Full Recovery Model to protect your data assets.
2009-09-21
9,090 reads
SQL Server Memory Configuration, Determining MemToLeave Settings
Tweaking SQL Server memory settings to provide support for managed code.
2009-07-06
12,371 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers