One of your last lines of defense for just about any system is to have a backup in place in case there is a need to recover some or all of your data. This is also true for SQL Server. In this tutorial we will discuss selecting the correct recovery models, what backup options are available, and how to create backups using T-SQL commands and SQL Server Management Studio.
What good is a backup if you do not know to restore the backup. In this tutorial we will look at what restore options are available and which options are only accessible using T-SQL commands.
The INFORMATION_SCHEMA views allow you to retrieve metadata about the objects within a database. These views can be found in the master database under Views / System Views and be called from any database in your SQL Server instance. In this tutorial we look at some of these INFORMATION_SCHEMA views and how they can be used.
In this tutorial we will cover some of the common issues with performance such as: deadlocks, blocking, missing and unused indexes, I/O bottlenecks, poor query plans, statistics, wait stats and fragmentation.
The days of explaining and justifying the cloud have passed. We no longer ask if we are going to the cloud; instead, we now ask when. Join Douglas McDowell, Chief Strategy Officer for SentryOne, as he addresses the options, concerns, and benefits surrounding the many paths to migrating your on-premises and virtualized SQL Server workloads into the cloud.
Join us to learn how to avoid pitfalls with SQL Server’s Always On that can cause unexpected failures. With SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, monitor Always On availability groups, availability databases, and availability replicas.
Melissa’s new Unison platform offers a lightweight, revolutionary approach to providing enterprise level solutions for deploying and maintaining powerful data quality for data-driven organizations.
