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The Strategic Role of the DBA
I’m the non-technical marketing guy at SSG. In order to help the team actually market our services, I’ve had to educate myself a little…okay, a
How to improve SQL Server’s IO performance by up to 40%
In my last article, I started off talking about checking various settings that make a performance difference prior to jumping into query tuning. This article
ArithAbort and SQL Agent Failures
A mystery staring arithabort. I was coding along one day, working on rolling out some monitoring for a client—monitoring that I had used for previous
Moving Databases to New Drives: A Real-world Case Study Involving 120 Databases
Moving databases is a common enough task for the DBA, and there are multiple ways to move physical database files from one drive to another.
The DBA is Resurrected
Do a Google search for “the DBA” and one of the top auto-fill results will be “…is dead.” In recent months there has been a flurry