Management Data Warehouse

The SQL Server Features that Time Forgot

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Every new release of SQL Server comes with new features that cause a ripple of excitement within the industry: well, amongst the marketing people anyway. What happens to all the exciting TLAs that are bandied about when a new version launches? It's mixed, it seems. Adam Machanic's classic post, The SQL Hall of Shame, has inspired Rob Sheldon to look back at some of the features that, though worthy, have may have failed to hit the mainstream.

2017-10-27

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Removing SQL Server Management Data Warehouse (Data Collector)

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Learn how to remove the MDW from your SQL Server environment with the 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012 versions.

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2014-09-29

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Removing the SQL Server Management Data Warehouse

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SQL Server 2008 introduced a new feature, Management Data Warehouse (MDW), which allows users to collect metrics on their servers over time to aid in performance troubleshooting. A lot of people try this feature out, because it is easy to set up, and then find that it is not so easy to remove. In fact, removing MDW is not supported; in SQL Server 2012, though, a new system stored procedure was added to make this process easier. The problem is that this stored procedure (as well as several of the workarounds I've seen published) can leave several objects behind.

2012-08-09

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Analyzing Product Growth with the Management Data Warehouse

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This article presents a case study of using the Management Data Warehouse feature in SQL Server 2008 to analyze disk usage trends by product.

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2010-11-29

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RE: Fragmentation with Clustered Primary Key?

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The argument was that in the case above, there would be no fragementation and therefore no reason to ever reindex the table.  Also, no reason to set a fillfactor.  Does that hold true?

2005-02-21

RE: Any Crystal/Developer Experts out there?

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If you have no concern with what tiem the entered_datetime field is just want to see for day then try this.DATEADD(d,DATEDIFF(d,0,appt.entered_datetime),0) between DATEADD(d,DATEDIFF(d,0,@start_date),0)                                and DATEADD(d,DATEDIFF(d,0,@end_date),0)

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2004-05-06

RE: SQL Server to Access Data Transfer

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quote: The problem is, that some of the fields in the Access DB have Validation Rules and Input masks setup. For instance, there is an email field with a validation of *@*.* The * wildcard is not recognized by SQL server and is consequently throwing an error on valid email addresses. Have you created check […]

2003-12-22

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RE: SQL Code authoring tools

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Hi Diane, quote: We are looking at purchasing a SQL Code Authoring tool. We've looked at RapidSQL, MssqlXpress and AdeptSQL. Are there any others that we should look at? I haven't got in touch with the products you've mentioned, but in my opinion, why spent money on something while QA is free and extendable? Cheers, […]

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2003-07-22

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