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Will Instant File Initialization Really Help My Databases?
Do you want to make your database server faster? If you answered no, you can go back to manually checking that all of last night’s backups succeeded. If you answered yes, think about all the ways you...
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Cassandra and .NET
Cassandra is a popular NoSQL database – it powers portions of Facebook, Netflix, eBay, and a host of other companies. DataStax, the commercial company behind Cassandra, just released the 1.0 version of...
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SQL Server Training Classes in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego
We’re excited to announce our 2014 training class schedule! We’re coming to Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Diego to teach these two classes: How to Be a Senior DBA For the last couple of years, you’ve...
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Grab a Free eBook – How to Develop Your DBA Career
New free eBook, “How to Develop Your DBA Career” You’ve been trying to get the right DBA job for a long time, but you just can’t seem to figure out how to land it. You’ve landed a DBA gig, but you’re...
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You Need This One Skill to Succeed in IT
The ability to program in five languages, including one machine-level? Not it. Project management skills, up to and including a PMP certification? Not that either. Excellent oral and written...
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Introducing the sp_Blitz™ application
The only reason you’re here… jazz hands You like sp_blitz ™, right? That’s probably why you’re here. That or the jazz hands. Let’s talk about sp_Blitz™. Let’s also talk about being lazy. sp_Blitz™...
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CorrugatedIron 1.4
We’re happy to announce that we’ve released CorrugatedIron 1.4.0. This release contains a large number of bug fixes, new features, and enhancements. That’s right, brand new Riak and .NET straight to...
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AlwaysOn Availability Groups Real-Life Lessons Learned (Video)
SQL Server 2012 introduced AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a feature intended to replace clustering, database mirroring, log shipping, replication, and other technologies by giving us one easy-to-manage...
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Announcing Our Free Accidental DBA 6 Month Training Plan
You’ve been working with SQL Server for a couple of years now, and you’ve managed to find your way to some good blogs. You usually Google your way out of problems as they arise, and you know there’s a...
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Many Masters, One Truth
As businesses grow, many teams start considering scale out database solutions but they’re cautious – they want to know how to keep data up to date in multiple places. In theory, you can use log...
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Database Mirroring FAQ
I recently gave two webcasts on database mirroring – Mirror Mirror on the Server, Who is the Principal of Us All? and Mirror Mirror on the Server, Who is the Mirror of Us All? - which generated a lot...
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How to Find ‘Secret Columns’ in Nonclustered Indexes
sp_BlitzIndex™ just can’t keep a secret. That’s a feature, not a bug. I wrote sp_BlitzIndex™ specifically so that it would rat out some things that SQL Server is doing behind the scenes to secretly...
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SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks, and It’s All Your Fault
Every release lately, Microsoft has been turning the screws on Standard Edition users. We get less CPU power, less memory, and few (if any) new features. According to Microsoft, if you want to use more...
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Dude, Who Stole My Missing Index Recommendation?
Recently, Jes asked the team an index tuning question: “If a query has an index hint in it, will the optimizer ever suggest a missing index for that query?” I immediately loved the question because I’d...
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The Best Free SQL Server Downloads: New $29 Class
When I work with clients, the thing I hear the most is: “WOW! That’s really cool – where’d you get that?” While sometimes they’re talking about my 128GB USB3 thumb drive or my PlugBug Mac power cord,...
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AlwaysOn Availability Groups: The Average of its Parts
Business is booming; the sales team is bringing in more business and the software developers are successfully scaling out at the web server tier. There are signs of pressure on the database tier and...
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Querying a Key/Value Database – Learning with Riak
On the continuum of databases, key/value databases are the simplest. Data is stored in an opaque value that’s identified by a key. Although key-value databases might seem overly simple, that simplicity...
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What Queries are Failing in My SQL Server?
Help is on the way I came across an interesting case recently where queries were failing in a high transaction SQL Server. We knew that queries were occasionally failing with error severity 20 because...
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One-Line Romantic Stories of SQL Server
When they finally sat down to define their relationship, he was stunned to discover that he had a child table. … Her love was like Transparent Data Encryption: sure, he felt a sense of security, but...
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The One-Slide Wonders of SQL Server [Video]
Some things in SQL Server are hard – but some of ‘em are actually pretty easy. In this video, we’ll talk about the pros and cons of SQL Server features in a single slide including multi-master...
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