The Maintenance Plan wizard offers a quick and simple route to make sure essential database maintenance tasks are performed and scheduled. However, it needs to be used with a lot of care, and is no substitute for the judgment, experience and common sense of a flesh and blood DBA.
2009-10-05
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The wording of the statement about MySQL that came out from Oracle after the merger was downbeat. The implication was "Oh no! Another Blooming Database to deal with". But surely they don't plan to just let it drift?
2009-08-17
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2009-08-10
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Tony Davis explains his theory on why developers and DBAs listen to very different types of music, while working, and offers his list of "classic tracks" for all DBAs.
2009-07-07
308 reads
It's a holiday weekend, but for some DBA's it's hard to escape the unwanted clutches of IT...
2009-07-06
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Over the past five or so years, encouraging progress has been made with regard to testing .NET application code...I wish I could say that the same progress had been made with testing SQL.
2009-07-01
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Virtualization, and use of the 'cloud', will be essential to the deployment of new applications, but will existing applications will be quite so amenable?
2009-06-15
271 reads
T-SQL is not a language to be admired from a distance for its grace, sophistication and integrity. It is a tool designed to allow "normal" developers and DBAs to build database business applications as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
2009-05-25
349 reads
Instead of piling on more, often increasingly complex, tools, Tony believes what is needed is a clear roadmap and methodology for systematically addressing SQL Server Performance issues.
2009-05-20
145 reads
Tools expand, some might say bloat, at an alarming rate and it's often the case that, in amongst all the clutter, the most valuable features somehow elude us.
2009-05-18
79 reads
By Steve Jones
I don’t do a lot of work with disabled index, but I learned how...
By Steve Jones
I’m leaving again tomorrow for a trip. This time I head back to Boston...
By Tim Mitchell
Most of us who work with data have, at least a few times, been...
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