Welcome to the first Meme Monday! Today’s meme is “Write a SQL blog post in 11 words or less”, and here is my entry: Taking backups is half the job, don’t forget to restore them Tag Time Grant Fritchey (blog @GFritchey ) Aaron Bertrand ( blog @AaronBertrand ) Jorge Segarra ( blog @SQLChicken ) Great idea [...]
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The Change Data Capture (CDC) Easy Button
I’ve been working alot with CDC the last little while and found these couple of scripts very useful. These scripts are handy in a DEV type of environment… you should be alot pickier about what you use CDC for but if you’re looking to play around and get your hands dirty then these are the [...]
How Important Is Your Data?
What would it mean to you and your business if a hacker or a competitor had access to your database? What would happen if data like personal customer information, Human Resources data, sales details, product lists and prices got in the wrong hands? How Important Is Your Data? (Mini-Lab Part 1/3) A “Mini-Lab” series over [...]
Benchmarking Series
Over on Tier1OnSQL.com there is a 5 part Benchmarking Series being posted this week and next. If you’ve never worked on creating a benchmark or have a bunch of benchmarking experience we’d love to hear your thoughts/opinions on the subject. Introduction (Part 0/5) The Need For Benchmarking (Part 1/5) The Elements of a Benchmark (Part 2/5) [...]
Simplify
It’s 2011 and it’s time for the “Theme Word of the Year” and for me this year is going to be about the KISS methodology. No I’m not going to “rock all night and party everyday” (although that would be quite fun) but I’m going to streamline and get my fingers out of some of [...]
