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database administration
Oracle ASM: Migrating from UDEV devices to the ASM Filter Driver
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SQL Server Monitoring Using Free Tools
You can do essential monitoring of SQL Server instances and databases with a FREE toolkit!
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Performance Tuning Using Free Tools, Part 2
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SQLFacts - A Free Toolkit for SQL Server Database Engineers
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Building blocks of Extended Events data collection
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Improving performance with instant file initialization
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Much Ado about nothing: missing data
Joe Celko explains how missing data is handled from the printing press to databases.
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SQL Server and hyperconvergence
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SQL Server performance tuning: Nine best practices
SQL Server performance tuning can seem overwhelming when you don’t know where to start. In this article Robert Sheldon explains 9 best practices for performance tuning.
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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