In our quests to always be growing and improving, both personally and professionally, here are 10 reflection areas and example questions we have identified to help you determine possible improvement focus areas to take your performance to the next level.
Have you ever started a new job or a new project only to find out the job description doesn't match the actual job? Learn how to make sure you ask the right questions so you don't end up somewhere you don't want to be.
In this article we look at why people feel they don't have the right skill set to apply for a job and why they should still apply even though they don't have all of the skills listed.
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.
Join David Terry to learn how to quickly identify and resolve tempdb performance issues using IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager. View the space, contention, and health of tempdb via a series of charts, views, alerts, and reports that are unique to tempdb. In detail, monitor the file space, version store, sessions space usage, and wait stats for tempdb.
Join Rey Rios as he demonstrates how IDERA SQL Management Suite monitors and tracks changes to SQL Server objects and data, and sends alerts on suspicious activity to ensure compliance with requirements for industry regulations and data security. It also monitors, alerts, diagnoses, and tunes SQL Server availability, health, and performance.
IDERA’s Anil Mahadev will demonstrate how to reverse-engineer an Azure SQL Database, troubleshoot connectivity issues, and generate DDL scripts for database updates.
Security, compliance, and auditing are all related, but they aren't the same thing. Passing an audit doesn't mean you're secure and being secure doesn't mean you can pass the audit! Attend this webcast to learn more.
