Brad McGehee Database Maintenance Plans in SSMS: An Overview Maintenance plans are essential. Microsoft provide two tools, the Maintenance Plan Wizard and the Maintenance Plan designer, to assist the... 06 January 2010 23 min read
Robert Sheldon Five Basic Steps for Implementing an Analysis Services Database To learn an application, nothing beats getting it up and running. Getting started with Analysis Services can be frustrating unless... 05 January 2010 18 min read
Phil Factor The SQL of Scrabble and Rapping In which Phil decides to use a table consisting of all the common words in English to explore ways of... 25 December 2009 15 min read
Robert Sheldon Working with the bcp Command-line Utility Even though there are many other ways to get data into a database, nothing works quite as fast as BCP,... 10 December 2009 35 min read
Barry King SQL Server Partitioning without Enterprise Edition Table partitioning is a valuable technique for managing very large database tables. It has always been possible with SQL Server,... 10 December 2009 6 min read
Laerte Junior Exceptional PowerShell DBA Pt1 – Orphaned Users Inspired by Brad McGehee's 'How to Become an Exceptional DBA', Laerte decided it was high time he took a proactive... 26 November 2009 16 min read
Rodney Landrum Eating SQL Server Installations for Breakfast Here you will find wholesome SQL Server installations on the menu, complete with Express, Continental and Deluxe breakfast choices, depending... 24 November 2009 25 min read
Robert Sheldon Managing Transaction Logs in SQL Server The Transaction Log provides the means by which either the complete set of tasks of a database transaction are performed... 12 November 2009 17 min read
Phil Factor Pivoting, Un-pivoting and Aggregating: A Quick Spin Around the Block In which Phil is asked to write a nice simple quick-start guide about aggregation, pivoting and un-pivoting techniques. To do... 12 November 2009 17 min read
Grant Fritchey Controlling Execution Plans with Hints The Query Optimizer gets it right most of the time, but occasionally it chooses a plan that isn't the best... 12 November 2009 38 min read
Bob Cramblitt Exceptional DBA Josef Richberg: fighting cancer, but still sharing Josef Richberg is an exceptional person: The Judges of the Exceptional DBA Award were quickly proved right in their decision... 10 November 2009 6 min read
Michael Sorens How to build a Query Template Explorer Having introduced his cross-platform Query Template solution, Michael now gives us the technical details on how to integrate his .NET... 23 October 2009 15 min read
Fabiano Amorim Query Optimizer and Cartesian Products In his continuing quest to bring a deeper understanding of Query Optimizer to the world at large, Fabiano takes a... 22 October 2009 5 min read
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Joe Celko Joe Celko, the Database Developer and writer from Austin Texas, is not a man to mince his words. His encyclopedic... 16 October 2009 12 min read
Anith Sen Five Simple Database Design Errors You Should Avoid Anith follows up his highly successful article Facts and Fallacies about First Normal Form with a fascinating discussion of five... 16 October 2009 18 min read
Fabiano Amorim Data Correlation Optimization Internals Having adroitly introduced us, in his previous article, to the Date Correlation ability of the Query Optimizer, Fabiano discusses the... 14 October 2009 10 min read
Laerte Junior Reducing I/O with the ‘Missing Indexes’ DMVs Laerte recently experienced an I/O nightmare, which, as a happy accident, gave him an opportunity to test out the 'Missing... 09 October 2009 14 min read
Ryan Duclos Ten Common SQL Server Reporting Services Challenges and Solutions Many of us who have to develop a Reporting Services (SSRS) application come across various problems, hurdles or 'gotchas' that... 08 October 2009 26 min read
Brad McGehee Mastering SQL Server Profiler – eBook Download Download Brad McGehee's "from the ground up" guide to SQL Server's most powerful performance diagnostic tool.… 07 October 2009 2 min read
Jacob Sebastian The Art of XSD – eBook Download When information is exchanged in XML format, you need an agreement between the sender and receiver about the structure and... 07 October 2009 1 min read
