Matteo Lorini

My name is Matteo and I am currently a DBA for one of the largest global electronic payment service providers in the US. I have been working in IT since I graduate from college back in 1993. I have a masters degree in Computer Science, and I am specialized in MSSQL, and have a good working knowledge of MySQL as well.

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Category	Tip Title
Auditing and Compliance	Steps to restore a database that has a SQL Server Audit defined
Compression	SQL Server Compressed Backups Disk Space Needs
Database Administration	How to use the SQL Server sys.fn_PhysLocFormatter undocumented function
Database Administration	SQL Server does not reclaim space used when inserts fail
Database Administration	SQL Server Lazy Writer Issue Warning No Free Buffers Found
Database Mirroring	SQL Server Database Mirroring Breaks if Endpoint Owner is Deleted
DBA Best Practices	Getting started with source control for SQL Server
DBA Best Practices	Using Source Control with SQL Server Management Studio
Disaster Recovery	Rebuilding SQL Server on different hardware after a failure
Dynamic Management Views and Functions	SQL Server Monitoring Scripts with the DMVs
Encryption	How to simulate transparent data encryption TDE with SQL 2000 and 2005
Functions User Defined UDF	Valid Email Address Check with TSQL
Import and Export	Export SQL Server Tables to Excel
Install and Uninstall	Quick Start Guide for Data Science with SQL Server and R Services
Linked Servers	How to create a SQL Server link server to IBM DB2
Master Data Services	Master Data Services Versions and Views for SQL Server
Microsoft Excel Integration	How to Export Data from SQL Server to Excel
Microsoft Excel Integration	Load Excel Data Into SQL Server
Other Database Platforms	Import and Export Data between SQL Server and Cognos TM1 Cube
Other Database Platforms	Microsoft SQL Server vs. MySQL
Performance Data Warehouse	Create Custom Data Collections for SQL Server Data Management Warehouse
Performance Tuning	A closer look at CXPACKET wait type in SQL Server
Performance Tuning	How to create a SQL Server Clone Statistics Only Database
Performance Tuning	Improving SQL Server performance when using table variables
Performance Tuning	Interesting example of statistics and index usage on a SQL Server computed column
Performance Tuning	Perfmon Counters to Identify SQL Server Disk Bottlenecks
Performance Tuning	Performance Advantages of SQL Server Filtered Statistics
Performance Tuning	Speed up SQL Server queries with PREFETCH
Performance Tuning	SQL Server 2008 64bit Query Optimization Trick
Performance Tuning	Tool to help you analyze SQL Server SQLDIAG and PSSDIAG output
Performance Tuning	Trick to Optimize TOP clause in SQL Server
Policy Based Management	Internal SQL Server Certificates have expired is this an issue
R Language	Create SQL Server Graphics with ggplot2 and R Services
R Language	Data Structures in R including Vector, Matrix, Array, List, and Data Frame
R Language	How to Create a R Function in SQL Server
R Language	Import Data from PDF to SQL Server
R Language	R Functions and Operators in SQL Server
R Language	sqldf in R Example for SQL Server
R Language	Stored Procedure in SQL Server with R Code
R Language	Subset in R including List, Data Frame, Matrix and Vector
Replication	SQL Server snapshot replication fails when importing data from the distributor
Security	SQL Server separation of duties
SQL Server Configurations	Determine which version of SQL Server data access driver is used by an application
SQL Server Configurations	Troubleshooting SQL Distributed Transactions (Part 2 of 2)
SQL Server Configurations	Troubleshooting SQL Server Distributed Transactions (Part 1 of 2)
SQL Server Configurations	What MAXDOP setting should be used for SQL Server
SQL Server Management Studio	How to use a Project in SQL Server Management Studio
System Databases	SQL Server tempdb one or multiple data files
TSQL	Easy way to compare SQL Server table schemas
TSQL	Standardize SQL Server T-SQL Code Formatting
Upgrades and Migrations	How to Recover from a SQL Server Service Pack 3 Install Error

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