December 2010 - Posts

• OK, I have my database ready, now what's missing?

  Posted Wednesday, December 29, 2010 3:00 AM | 1 Comments
  
  

  During the life of any database there will be times when the development makes a change that breaks functionality of an object somewhere else in the database. SQL Server does a good job in some places of making this impossible, or at least really difficult, Read More by fatherjack | 1 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: How To, Tips and Tricks

• Getting baseline and performance stats - the easy way.

  Posted Monday, December 20, 2010 3:00 AM | 11 Comments
  
  

  OK, pretty much any DBA worth their salt has read Brent Ozar's (Blog | Twitter) blog about getting a baseline of your server's performance counters and then getting the same counters at regular intervals afterwards so that you can track performance trends Read More by fatherjack | 11 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: How To, Tips and Tricks