Do you know how to provide high availability protection for SQL Server without upgrading to Enterprise Edition? Learn how to get robust data protection features for a fraction of the cost of SQL Enterprise Edition with AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
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Learn the A to Z process to build an SSIS Package in SQL Server 2016 with Visual Studio 2015. This step by step tutorial will provide you with the history of the technology and tools, Control Flow and Data Flow logic, deployment, performance optimizations
Is Hadoop really that popular? How much time do other DBAs truly spend on security? We joined forces with Unisphere Research and Database Trends and Applications to ask hundreds of DBAs some interesting questions and their answers may surprise you.
Some of our SQL Servers contain tables with summarized data (summarized on a weekly / monthly / quarterly basis). Previously this data was emailed as a flat file attachment to the recipients. I was asked to convert this in such a way that the email itself
In some applications having hard coded SQL statements is not appealing, because of the dynamic nature of the queries being issued against the database server. Because of this sometimes there is a need to dynamically create a SQL statement on the fly and t
Learn about the SQL Server 2016 replacement for DBCC INPUTBUFFER with the sys.dm_exec_input_buffer DMF that enables you to see the input buffers for all spids.
Learn about the SQL Server 2016 replacement for DBCC INPUTBUFFER with the sys.dm_exec_input_buffer DMF that enables you to see the input buffers for all spids.
My organization is beginning to invest in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), one of the things we are interested in doing is migrating backups to the cloud. In this tip we cover the steps to backup databases to the cloud.
You want to incorporate transactions in your SQL Server Integration Services Packages. For example, you insert data into a table with a data flow and after the data flow has finished an update statement is issued against the same table. If this update sta
Often times we are tasked with having to programmatically come with a list of durations per SQL Server Agent Job to trend the run times and order the results by date. Unfortunately Microsoft has not made that very easy in the way the data is stored in the
