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Greg Robidoux

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Greg Robidoux

Greg Robidoux is the President and founder of Edgewood Solutions, a technology services company delivering services and solutions for Microsoft SQL Server. Greg is also a co-founder of MSSQLTips.com. He has been working with SQL Server since 1999 and has authored numerous articles and delivered several presentations online and at local and national SQL Server events.

Analysis Services Tutorials

Getting Started with SQL Server Analysis Services (1/30/2007)

Auditing and Compliance

Auditing your SQL Server database and server permissions (9/27/2006)

Azure

Implementing a SQL Server Cluster in Azure (6/2/2016)

Backup

Automating Transaction Log Backups for All SQL Server Databases (8/28/2007)
Backup to multiple files for faster and smaller SQL Server files (6/5/2006)
Changing the default SQL Server backup folder (1/18/2016)
CLR function to delete older backup and log files in SQL Server (11/15/2007)
COPY_ONLY Backups with SQL Server (6/6/2013)
Encrypt and safeguard your SQL Server database backups (5/22/2007)
Issues with SQL Server backup log with no_log or truncate_only (3/27/2008)
Simple script to backup all SQL Server databases (10/15/2012)
SQL Server backup and restore to network drive (12/7/2006)
SQL Server Backup Plan (7/12/2007)
SQL Server Backup Tutorial (5/31/2011)
Stop logging all successful backups in your SQL Server error logs (3/18/2008)
Using passwords with SQL Server database backup files (11/8/2006)
What is in your SQL Server backup files? (1/4/2007)

Clustering

HA and DR Solutions for SQL Server Cloud Based Implementations (10/14/2014)
Implement a SQL Server HA failover solution without shared storage (5/14/2014)

Comparison Data and Objects

Listing SQL Server Object Dependencies (7/26/2007)
SQL Server tablediff command line utility (9/25/2006)

Constraints

Disable, enable, drop and recreate SQL Server Foreign Keys (11/19/2007)
Finding and fixing SQL Server database constraint issues (5/11/2007)
Finding primary keys and missing primary keys in SQL Server (5/4/2007)
Identify all of your foreign keys in a SQL Server database (1/5/2007)

Data Transformation Services

SQL Server DTS command line utility (6/26/2006)

Data Types

How to get length of Text, NText and Image columns in SQL Server (2/27/2007)

Database Administration

Different ways to determine free space for SQL Server databases and database files (7/30/2009)
How to determine SQL Server database transaction log usage (4/18/2007)
How to rename a SQL Server database (10/28/2012)
Retrieving SQL Server Database Properties with DATABASEPROPERTYEX (8/4/2006)
SQL Database Snapshots for Reporting, Auditing and Data Recovery (6/30/2006)

Database Consistency Checks DBCCs

DBCC SHOWCONTIG Blocking Issues in SQL Server (3/9/2007)
SQL Server 2005 DBCC CHECKDB with DATA_PURITY command (11/21/2006)
SQL Server Database Integrity Checks Checklist (7/27/2007)

Database Design

Modify SQL Server database tables to keep similar columns together (7/13/2007)
Retrieving SQL Server Column Properties with COLUMNPROPERTY (6/28/2007)
Simple way to create tables in SQL Server using Excel (8/29/2006)

Database Mail

Setting up Database Mail for SQL 2005 (11/9/2006)
SQL Server 2005 Database Mail Install Hangs (6/8/2007)

Database Mirroring

Adjusting the automatic failover time for SQL Server Database Mirroring (10/13/2008)
Database Mirroring Automating Failover for Multiple SQL Server Databases (8/18/2008)

DBA Best Practices

Defining and Establishing SQL Server Policies and Procedures (8/9/2007)
SQL Server Comparison Tools (9/11/2006)
SQL Server DBA database management checklist (7/3/2007)

Debugging

Debugging SQL Server CLR functions, triggers and stored procedures (11/11/2008)

Dynamic Management Views and Functions

Finding a SQL Server process percentage complete with DMVs (9/26/2007)
Using SQL Server DMVs to Identify Missing Indexes (11/25/2008)

Dynamic SQL

Execute Dynamic SQL commands in SQL Server (10/15/2012)
SQL Server Video Creating Dynamic SQL Commands (7/1/2014)

Encryption

Decrypting SQL Server database objects (8/23/2006)

Error Handling

SQL Server 2005 Try and Catch Exception Handling (7/26/2006)

Error Logs

Simple way to find errors in SQL Server error log (8/13/2007)

Express Edition

Free Job Scheduling Tool for SQL Server Express and MSDE (10/10/2006)
Free Performance Profiler Tool for SQL Server 2005 Express (3/20/2008)
Scheduling Backups for SQL Server Express (2/7/2007)
Send Email from SQL Server Express Using a CLR Stored Procedure (7/16/2009)

Fragmentation and Index Maintenance

Automating SQL Server fragmentation management (3/19/2015)
Managing SQL Server Database Fragmentation (1/25/2007)
Selectively rebuild indexes with SQL Server maintenance plans (12/8/2006)
SQL Server Index Maintenance Checklist (9/27/2007)
SQL Server script to rebuild all indexes for all tables and all databases (10/14/2012)

Functions - System

Dynamically controlling the number of rows affected by a SQL Server query (7/8/2008)
Randomly Retrieve SQL Server Records (6/29/2006)
Retrieving random data from SQL Server with TABLESAMPLE (8/14/2007)
SQL Server Text Data Manipulation (7/25/2006)

Functions - User Defined UDF

CLR String Sort Function in SQL Server 2005 (10/4/2007)
SQL Server CLR and SQL split functions to parse a delimited string (1/14/2013)
Standardize Text with Multi Search and Replace Function in SQL Server (8/25/2010)

High Availability

SQL Server Hybrid High Availability and Disaster Recovery (8/28/2014)

Identities

Add or drop identity property for an existing SQL Server column (1/4/2008)
Auto create identity insert SQL Server command to sync tables (6/10/2010)
Managing and maintaining SQL Server identity values (12/5/2006)
Populate a SQL Server column with a sequential number not using an identity (2/1/2016)
Retrieve identity column properties for SQL Server database tables (6/29/2007)
Using Identity Insert to keep SQL Server table keys in sync (9/26/2006)

Import and Export

Different Options for Importing Data into SQL Server (10/29/2012)
Minimally Logging Bulk Load Inserts into SQL Server (2/22/2007)

Indexing

Building SQL Server Indexes in Ascending vs Descending Order (9/25/2007)
Clustered Tables vs Heap Tables (5/30/2007)
Deeper insight into unused indexes for SQL Server (7/22/2008)
Finding a better candidate for your SQL Server clustered indexes (12/9/2008)
How to get index usage information in SQL Server (5/8/2007)
Retrieving SQL Server Index Properties with INDEXPROPERTY (8/11/2006)
SQL Server Index Analysis Script for All Indexes on All Tables (6/19/2006)
Understanding SQL Server Indexing (3/22/2007)

Integration Services Configuration Options

Pass dynamic parameter values to SQL Server Integration Services (12/17/2007)

Integration Services Control Flow Transformations

Dynamic SQL Server Integration Services SSIS workflow based on variables (4/29/2008)

Integration Services Data Flow Transformations

Merge multiple data sources with SQL Server Integration Services (9/5/2007)

Integration Services Development

Strip double quotes from an import file in Integration Services SSIS (8/24/2007)

Integration Services Excel

Import Excel unicode data with SQL Server Integration Services (10/22/2012)

Integration Services Performance

Making data imports into SQL Server as fast as possible (11/20/2007)

Integration Services Upgrade

SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 DTS Package Conversion Runtime Issue (11/15/2010)

JOIN Tables

Compare SQL Server Datasets with INTERSECT and EXCEPT (9/11/2007)
Join SQL Server tables where columns include NULL values (3/4/2008)
UNION vs. UNION ALL in SQL Server (12/5/2007)

Locking and Blocking

Finding and troubleshooting SQL Server deadlocks (8/9/2006)
Understanding the SQL Server NOLOCK hint (8/16/2011)

Log Shipping

SQL Server Log Shipping (1/17/2007)

Maintenance

Maintenance task to delete old SQL Server backup files (9/6/2007)
Performing maintenance tasks in SQL Server (7/7/2006)
SQL Server transaction log backups always fail with maintenance plan (4/10/2007)
Supporting tables for SQL Server 2005 style maintenance plans (12/18/2006)

Monitoring

Customized Alerting with Spotlight on SQL Server (1/14/2014)
Determining space used for each table in a SQL Server database (2/12/2007)
Discover and Manage your SQL Server environment with SQL Inventory Manager (12/16/2015)
Essentially Everything you need to Monitor SQL Server - at no cost! (2/5/2014)
Getting operating system content into SQL Server (2/6/2007)
Methods to determine the status of a SQL Server database (4/15/2008)
Monitoring and Tuning SQL Server with SQL Diagnostic Manager (1/7/2015)
Monitoring SQL Server database transaction log space (2/13/2007)
New and Improved Features in SQL Inventory Manager (9/29/2016)
Problems running sp_helpdb in SQL Server (4/6/2007)
Reading the SQL Server log files using TSQL (4/14/2008)
SQL Server Command Line Tools To Manage Your Server (7/28/2006)

Partitioning

Handling Large SQL Server Tables with Data Partitioning (3/15/2007)
Switching data in and out of a SQL Server 2005 data partition (1/7/2008)

Performance Tuning

Avoid SQL Server functions in the WHERE clause for Performance (5/3/2007)
Correlating Performance Monitor and SQL Server Profiler Data (3/30/2007)
Gather IO statistics down to the SQL Server database file level (6/10/2013)
Optimize Parameter Driven Queries with SQL Server OPTIMIZE FOR Hint (10/18/2007)
Remove some SQL Server blocking issues with the NOLOCK hint (4/27/2007)
SQL Server Database Specific Performance Counters (6/14/2007)
SQL Server statements currently running with fn_get_sql (6/27/2006)
Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005 (1/31/2007)

Profiler and Trace

SQL Server Performance Statistics Using a Server Side Trace (11/26/2012)

Query Optimization

Crosstab queries using PIVOT in SQL Server (10/1/2012)
Using Derived Tables to Simplify the SQL Server Query Process (8/16/2006)

Query Plans

Capturing Graphical Query Plans with SQL Server Profiler (6/13/2007)
Maximizing your view into SQL Query Plans (11/5/2007)

Recovery Models

Selecting the SQL Server database recovery model to ensure proper backups (5/13/2008)

Replication

Change Not For Replication Value for SQL Server Identity Columns (6/27/2007)
Replication support only option with SQL Server 2005 replication (11/20/2006)
SQL Server 2005 Peer to Peer Replication (8/7/2006)
Transactional Replication Snapshot Issues in SQL Server (6/21/2007)

Reporting Services Overview

Getting Started with Reporting Services (10/9/2007)

Restore

Auto generate SQL Server database restore scripts (5/14/2007)
Auto generate SQL Server restore script from backup files in a directory (9/16/2008)
Getting exclusive access to restore SQL Server databases (1/8/2008)
SQL Server 2000 Database Restores Mapping Users to Logins (9/15/2006)
SQL Server point in time recovery (4/26/2007)
SQL Server Restore Tutorial (6/7/2011)

Scripts

Capture all statements for a SQL Server session (3/18/2009)
Cross tab queries with SQL Server 2000 (6/15/2006)
Executing a TSQL batch multiple times using GO (4/5/2007)
Find Text in the Text data type with the SQL Server LIKE Operator (10/8/2007)
Recursive queries with SQL Server 2000 (8/30/2006)
Scripting SQL Server Database Objects Using DMO (8/22/2006)
Searching and finding a string value in all columns in a SQL Server table (1/31/2016)
SQL Server Find and Replace Values in All Tables and All Text Columns (8/5/2008)
Standardize SQL Server data with text lookup and replace function (9/12/2006)

Security

Enabling xp_cmdshell in SQL Server 2005 (7/13/2006)
Giving and removing permissions in SQL Server (12/19/2006)
Granting permission with the EXECUTE AS command in SQL Server (4/20/2007)
Hiding instances of SQL Server 2005 (3/7/2007)
Securing SQL Server with SQL Secure (7/8/2015)

SQL Server Agent

Accessing SQL Server Agent Data (5/15/2007)
Automatic cleanup of SQL Server Agent scheduled jobs (12/20/2006)
Collect Performance Monitor Statistics for SQL Server Agent Jobs (3/28/2007)
How to store longer SQL Agent Job Step output messages (12/14/2007)
Missing SQL Server Agent History (6/20/2007)
Setting Up Alerts for All SQL Server Agent Jobs (10/26/2006)

SQL Server Configurations

Find Last Restart of SQL Server (9/19/2011)
How to tell what SQL Server version you are running (9/9/2016)
SQL Server 2000 vs SQL Server 2005 Startup Parameters (6/28/2006)

SQL Server Management Studio

Assign shortcuts to commands in SQL Server Management Studio (7/17/2007)
Build code using the SQL Server object browsers drag and drop (5/16/2007)
Copy column headers and query results in SQL Server Management Studio (11/7/2006)
Drag and drop query result columns in SQL Server 2005 (1/18/2007)
Dynamic SQL Server stored procedure execution form in SSMS (11/16/2007)
Scripting out TSQL commands generated by SQL Server Management Studio (5/23/2008)
SQL Query Analyzer Shortcuts (7/5/2006)
Using Solutions and Projects to manage your SQL Server code (11/1/2007)

Stored Procedures

Getting started with SQL Server stored procedures (5/9/2008)
SET NOCOUNT ON Improves SQL Server Stored Procedure Performance (4/19/2007)
SQL Server Stored Procedure Tutorial (6/21/2011)

System Databases

Move all SQL Server system databases at one time (9/5/2011)

T-SQL

Delete duplicate rows with no primary key on a SQL Server table (11/10/2006)
Determining SET Options for a Current Session in SQL Server (1/18/2008)
Limit amount of data returned with the SQL Server TEXTSIZE command (12/19/2007)
Problem using DISTINCT in case insensitive SQL Server databases (5/27/2008)
Renaming SQL Server database objects and changing object owners (12/21/2007)
SQL Server Bitwise operators store multiple values in one column (4/9/2007)
SQL Server Four part naming (11/6/2006)

Testing

Create delays in SQL Server processes to mimic user input (1/30/2008)

Tools

Finding SQL Server Code Errors using Query Analyzer (10/27/2006)
Free SQL Server tools from Microsoft (7/6/2006)
Free SQL Server Tools to Manage SQL Server from Idera (11/13/2014)
How does Enterprise Manager get its data (6/20/2006)
SQL Formatter Tool (6/7/2006)
SQL Server Documentation Tools (7/11/2016)

Triggers

Auditing DDL (Create, Alter, Drop) Commands in SQL Server 2005 (6/22/2006)

Upgrades and Migrations

Applying SQL Server Service Packs (9/10/2007)
Issue with SQL Server 2005 SP2 (3/8/2007)
SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (1/22/2007)
SQL Server 2008 has arrived (6/6/2007)
Upgrading SQL Server databases and changing compatibility levels (2/18/2008)

Views

Using Views to Simplify Data Access in SQL Server (10/5/2007)

Virtualization

Access to SQL Server 2008 Virtual Environment (1/16/2008)

XML

BCP XML Format Files with SQL Server 2005 (9/28/2006)

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