SQL Server Upgrade Recommendations and Best Practices - Part 1
This article is the first of a multi-part series detailing the SQL Server Upgrade process from the technical, logistical and business perspective.
2003-03-03
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Best and Worst Practices
Worst Practice - Bad Comments
This one is pretty interesting, Andy discusses a few things he sees in comments that not only fail to add value, they end up costing extra time. There's room for discussion here, but definitely a discussion worth having - comments can make you or break you, here's a chance to think about what you think is important in commenting and pass that on to your development team.
2003-01-23
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Worst Practices - Making On-The-Fly Changes
Continuing with our worst practices series, Steve Jones looks at another administrative no-no. Making a change to your live system on the fly.
2003-01-20
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Worst Practice - Not Having An Archive Plan For Each Table
We're curious to see what our readers have to say about this one! How many of us have tables accruing data that won't be used and/or isn't of any value? At what point do we get rid of it to free up resources?
2002-11-11
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Worst Practice - Sorting by Ordinal
If you've been with us for a while you know that Andy started a series last year on worst practices. As he says, maybe you can't always do best practices, but at least dont do the worst ones. Read the article and add a comment, participate!
2002-10-01
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SQL Server Best Practices web seminar offered by NetIQ
Join NetIQ on July 17, 2002 for a free web seminar on "SQL Server Best Practices -- Tools and Techniques for Improving Production Operations". The event is being offered three times at 9:00 AM ET, 12:00 Noon ET, and 4:00 PM ET.
2002-07-17
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SQL Server Encryption Best and Worst Practices
In this article by Neil Weicher, he talks about encryption of data and files for SQL Server.
2002-01-30
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Worst Practices - Encrypting Data
Continuing with the Worst Practices Series: Steve Jones examines why encryption in the database is a bad idea.
2002-01-08
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Worst Practices - Depending on the GUI
One of the strengths of SQL Server is its ease of management and administration over other systems. Oracle, DB2, even early versions of SQL Server required command line mastery to make many types of changes. But should you really be using the GUI for most of your tasks?
2001-12-04
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Worst Practices - Assigning Users Rights
Continuing with Andy Warren's series on Worst Practices for a DBA, Steve Jones joins in this week with his worst practice.
2001-11-06
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Blogs
SQL Saturday Boston 2024 Slides
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Thanks to everyone that came to my talks. Slides are below. Best Practices for...
Small Data SF 2024
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I can’t remember how I heard about Small Data SF 2024, but it caught...
A New Word: Moledro
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moledro – n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll...
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