Brady Upton

Brady Upton
Brady Upton is a Database Administrator and SharePoint superstar in Nashville, TN.

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Brady has been in the IT industry for 10+ years. He has worked in administrative roles using MSSQL 2000 to 2012 as well as Sharepoint 2007 and 2010. He currently serves as a Database Administrator in Nashville, TN. You can view his blog @ http://www.sqlbrady.com.
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Category Tip Title
Auditing and Compliance Identify SQL Server databases that are no longer in use
Availability Groups SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups - Part 1 configuration
Availability Groups SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups - Part 2 Availability Groups Setup
Azure Move an On-Premises SQL Server Database to the SQL Azure Cloud
Azure Using the Deploy Database to SQL Azure Wizard in SQL Server Management Studio to move to the Cloud
Clustering Adding Storage to SQL Server 2008 Cluster
Clustering Managing a Windows and SQL Server Cluster using the Failover Cluster Manager tool
Clustering SQL Server Clustering Management inside the command line
Database Administration Creating a Table Warehouse to Retain Historical Data for a SQL Server Table
Database Administration Managing the size of the SQL Server SSIS catalog database
Database Console Commands DBCCs Fixing SQL Server error in-row data RSVD page count is incorrect
Database Console Commands DBCCs SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB Overview
Database Design Identify and Correct SQL Server Forwarded Records
Database Mirroring Configure SQL Server Database Mirroring Using SSMS
Database Mirroring Steps to Apply a Service Pack or Patch to Mirrored SQL Server Databases
Dates Restore SQL Server Databases using DateTime functions
Dynamic Management Views and Functions Detect SQL Server CPU Pressure
Extended Events Managing SQL Server Extended Events in Management Studio
Fragmentation and Index Maintenance SQL Server Index Fragmentation Overview
High Availability SQL Server High Availability Options
Indexing SQL Server Index Properties in Management Studio
Integration Services Control Flow Transformations Using the SSIS WMI Task to Gather System Information
Integration Services Data Flow Transformations Removing Duplicates Rows with SSIS Sort Transformation
Integration Services Data Flow Transformations SQL Server Integration Services Data Type Conversion Testing
Integration Services Development How to create and use Temp tables in SSIS
Linked Servers Querying Active Directory Data from SQL Server
Maintenance SQL Server Maintenance Plans Reporting and Logging
Microsoft Access Integration Import data from Microsoft Access to SQL Server
Microsoft Excel Integration Building Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with PowerPivot
Microsoft Excel Integration Microsoft's new 3D data visualization BI product - GeoFlow
Microsoft Excel Integration More Uses for Data Explorer for Excel
Microsoft Excel Integration PowerPivot with Excel 2013
Monitoring Collect SQL Server Performance Counters and Build Reports with SSRS
Monitoring Report to Capture Table Growth Statistics for SQL Server
Partitioning SQL Server Partition Wizard
Performance Tuning SQL Server performance tuning for each layer of an application
Performance Tuning SQL Server Simple and Forced Parameterization
Query Plans Correct SQL Server TempDB Spills in Query Plans Caused by Outdated Statistics
Reporting Services Dynamic Reports Data Driven Colored Text for Reporting Services Reports
Reporting Services Maps Creating an SSRS Map report with data pinpoints
Security Securing and protecting SQL Server data, log and backup files with TDE
Security SQL Server User Defined Server Roles
SharePoint Creating a SharePoint Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
SharePoint Using SSIS to Automatically Populate a SharePoint List
SQL Server 2016 SQL Server 2016 Compare Showplan Option
SQL Server Agent SQL Server Multi Server Administration
SQL Server Management Studio Understanding Column Properties for a SQL Server Table
Upgrades and Migrations Downgrade from SQL Server Enterprise Edition to Standard Edition
Tutorial Topic
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial Introduction to the SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial What is the transaction log?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial Why does SQL Server require a transaction log?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial What is a transaction?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial What does BEGIN TRAN, ROLLBACK TRAN, and COMMIT TRAN mean?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial What is a nested transaction?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial How does Mirroring, Replication, and Log Shipping use the transaction log?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial Why does the transaction log grow?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial What is a Virtual Log File (VLF)?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial How to monitor transaction log growth
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial How to shrink the transaction log
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial How large should the transaction log be?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial Do multiple transaction logs help performance?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial What are the recovery models and how does the log use them?
SQL Server Transaction Log Tutorial How to recover data using a transaction log backup
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