This tip covers the different SQL Server date and time functions all in one place to make it easier to find what you are looking for when working with dates and times.
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.
While the terms performance and scalability are often used interchangeably, the distinction between them is important to understand. At the end of this session, you should have a solid understanding of how to determine if your SQL Server database needs to scale or needs to perform better.
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 SentryOne Chief Strategy Officer Douglas McDowell and SentryOne Solutions Engineer Devon Leann Wilson as they address the options, concerns, and benefits surrounding the many paths to migrating your on-premises and virtualized SQL Server workloads into the cloud.
In this webcast we will look at the importance of indexing for SQL Server data and how to ensure the indexes you have created are getting you the best performance out of SQL Server.
