William Brewer Disaster Recovery Planning for Data: The Cribsheet Planning for disaster recovery and business continuity aren't amongst the most exciting IT activities. They are, however, essential and relevant... 07 December 2012 13 min read
Jan Leers Code Instrumentation Whenever we execute a procedure, it’s out of our hands. We expect it to do what it was designed to... 04 December 2012 5 min read
Robert Sheldon Report Builder 3.0: Adding Matrices to Your Reports It is easy to create a basic matrix in Report Builder. However, it takes some practice in order to format... 04 December 2012 18 min read
Buck Woody Setting up a Data Science Laboratory There is no better way of understanding new data processing, retrieval, analysis or visualising techniques than actually trying things out.... 03 December 2012 21 min read
Joe Celko Row Sorting in SQL It should be easy to model a game of poker in SQL. The problem is, however, that you need to... 30 November 2012 10 min read
Jonathan Kehayias Free Tools for the DBA: PAL Tool The Performance Analysis of Logs tool is a general tool for collecting and analysing log data. With the addition of... 30 November 2012 10 min read
Gert Poel Generating XML from SQL and PL/SQL – Part 2 In this second part I’ll show you how you can generate XML from table data in PL/SQL. … 29 November 2012 10 min read
Feodor Georgiev How come the Hourglass? Why database applications slow down It is frustrating when you hit 'submit' and you get the hourglass big-time. Is it the database to blame? It... 28 November 2012 12 min read
Annette Allen SSIS BASICS: Introducing the Foreach Loop Container The Control flow components of SSIS can cause a great deal of puzzlement to anyone learning SSIS, especially the Foreach... 27 November 2012 14 min read
Feodor Georgiev Handling Backups for Rapid Resilience The backup and restore system in SQL Server hasn't changed a great deal over the years despite a huge growth... 20 November 2012 10 min read
Robert Sheldon Report Building 3.0: Adding Maps to Your Reports With Report Builder and SSMS, there isn't much you can't do in the way of the common reports and visualisations.... 13 November 2012 17 min read
Feodor Georgiev How come the Hourglass? Why database applications slow down It is frustrating when you hit 'submit' and you get the hourglass big-time. Is it the database to blame? It... 10 November 2012 12 min read
Joe Sack Fixing Gatekeeper Row Cardinality Estimate Issues The Query Optimiser needs a good estimate of the number of rows likely to be returned by each physical operator... 01 November 2012 18 min read
William Brewer Database Deployment Cribsheet As part of our long-running Cribsheet series, we asked William to write a guide to deployment that described in general... 29 October 2012 14 min read
Patrick Barel Edition Based Redefinition – Part 1 One of the ‘killer’ features of the Oracle Database version 11g Release 2 is probably Edition Based Redefinition. This functionality... 25 October 2012 7 min read
Annette Allen SSIS Basics: Using the Execute SQL Task to Generate Result Sets The Execute SQL Task of SSIS is extraordinarily useful, but it can cause a lot of difficulty for developers learning... 23 October 2012 14 min read
Seth Delconte Manipulating XML Data in SQL Server When the average database developer is obliged to manipulate XML, either shredding it into relational format, or creating it from... 23 October 2012 14 min read
Dmitri Korotkevitch Partitioned Tables, Indexes and Execution Plans: a Cautionary Tale Table partitioning is a blessing in that it makes large tables that have varying access patterns more scalable and manageable,... 23 October 2012 20 min read
Jonathan Lewis Temporary Tables in Oracle and SQL Server This video is a follow up to the webinar broadcast by Red Gate on 13th September 2012. Please leave a... 15 October 2012 1 min read
Feodor Georgiev Designing Databases for Rapid Resilience As the volume of data increases, DBAs need to plan more actively for rapid restores in the event of failure.... 15 October 2012 12 min read
