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Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan – Part II
In my previous article I described my database recovery attempts in company without ANY backups. Today I would like to talk about making of BDRP. All the time we protect ourselves our property our cats...
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Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 released
Final version of Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (11.0.3000.00) was released on 6th November! Download links: List of fixed bugs Release Notes Download Page What I’m really looking forward...
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Reporting Services 2012 SP1 on iPad
According to technet article Reporting Services are supported on iOS 6 devices in both (Native and SharePoint integrated) modes since SQL Server 2012 SP1. This was one of the feature I was really...
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Microsoft SQL Server Myth #2
Shrinking your transaction log makes your backups smaller. FALSE Transaction log and recovery mechanisms are one of the most misunderstood part of Database Engine. One of my customer was so adamant...
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SQL Server does not start with %%17051 error
SQL Server might not start from all variety of reasons including permission issues, master database not available or corrupted, service account issues, etc. In this article I will talk about diagnose...
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How to be a good SQL Consultant
Sometimes I wonder whether I am doing my best. As a consultant I am always facing something new or unexplored. Therefore I must keep myself up to date with: SQL authorities I am following Brent Ozar...
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When stored procedure slows down
This post will be about stored procedure that began to slooooow down. Background info I came across a datamart with ETL loading processes last year. Both of those were very poorly written (Currently...
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Integration Services Data Feed Publishing Components
First time I heard of Data Feed Publishing Components was at PASS summit this month. I was immediately interested in this new component. It basically allows you to hide SSIS complexity and overhead...
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T-SQL vs. MDX
Although MDX has some similarities with T-SQL these languages are in many ways different. MDX is an acronym for MultiDimensional expression. Nowadays MDX is implemented in many non-Microsoft analytical...
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Joys With Datetimes
Sometimes we need to generate current timestamp in a special format (e.g. suffixes for backup files). If we are unlucky that requested format is not supported by CONVERT function and SQL Server version...
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