Louis Davidson Baselining with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views When you're monitoring SQL Server, it is better to capture a baseline for those aspects that you're checking, such as... 02 July 2013 18 min read
Feodor Georgiev Collecting the Information in the Default Trace The default trace is still the best way of getting important information to provide a security audit of SQL Server,... 02 July 2013 14 min read
Syed Jaffar Hussain Oracle Database 12c New Features – Part I During this Oracle Database 12c new features article series, I shall be extensively exploring some of the very important new... 27 June 2013 10 min read
Rob Garrison Exploring In-memory OLTP Engine (Hekaton) in SQL Server 2014 CTP1 The continuing drop in the price of memory has made fast in-memory OLTP increasingly viable. SQL Server 2014 allows you... 25 June 2013 12 min read
Robert Sheldon Using DAX to retrieve tabular data Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), originally the formula language for PowerPivot workbooks, can also be used within the MDX query window... 24 June 2013 17 min read
Gert Poel Using Subtypes for Booleans I try to use subtypes as much as I can and after reading the “All Things Oracle” article of Patrick... 21 June 2013 5 min read
Jonathan Allen Preparing to Upgrade your SQL Server It isn't a problem to use deprecated TSQL features until it comes to the time to move the database to... 12 June 2013 17 min read
Hugo Kornelis Painless management of a logging table in SQL Server Tables that log a record of what happens in an application can get very large, easpecially if they're growing by... 11 June 2013 26 min read
Alexander Karmanov Automating SQL Server Database Deployments: Scripting Details To wrap up the series on Database Deployment Challenges, Alexander takes a dive into the details of how he scripted... 06 June 2013 30 min read
Phil Factor SQL Server CREATE TABLE syntax diagrams Many of us have seen, on MSDN, the heading 'Syntax', followed by a rash of nested brackets and keywords, enough... 06 June 2013 8 min read
Patrick Barel Views Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view. – Unknown When working with views you have several... 05 June 2013 5 min read
Satishbabu Gunukula Oracle Database Replay for your Workload Test Database replay was introduced in Oracle 11g R1, and it allows you to capture workloads on a Production system and... 30 May 2013 8 min read
Joe Celko The SQL of Parts Explosions Parts explosions present a classic IT problem. How can one calculate such things as weight or cost of assemblies in... 30 May 2013 11 min read
Tools Michael Sorens in Tools MySQL Data Compare: The Manual that Time Forgot MySQL Data Compare can both compare the data in MYSQL databases and also synchronise them. It is handy for a... 28 May 2013 16 min read
Robert Sheldon Getting Started with the SSAS Tabular Model SSAS Tabular models are in-memory databases that model data with relational constructs such as tables and relationships, in order to... 22 May 2013 16 min read
Andy Brown Moving Data From Excel to SQL Server – 10 Steps to Follow SQL Server Integration Services provide a versatile way of reading Excel files into SQL Server. A task like this illustrates... 21 May 2013 15 min read
Grant Fritchey The DBA Detective: The Case of the Missing Index When problems arise in SQL Server, we're faced with a server full of suspects, including disk I/O, memory, CPU, incorrect... 15 May 2013 12 min read
Allen White Backup and Restore SQL Server with the SQL Server 2012 PowerShell cmdlets There are plenty of occasions when it makes a lot of sense to do backup and restore scripts in PowerShell.... 03 May 2013 15 min read
Tools Michael Sorens in Tools MySQL Compare: The Manual That Time Forgot, Part 1 Although SQL Compare, for SQL Server, is one of Redgate's best-known products, there are also 'sister' tools that allow you... 03 May 2013 14 min read
Aman Sharma RAC One Node In the past few years, technology has become a very important aspect of our lives. There isn’t any moment when we are... 25 April 2013 20 min read
