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Author: Derik Hammer
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Unattended (Silent) SQL Server Installations
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As promised from my last post, Relocating SQL Server System Databases without Access to the Instance, today I will be blogging about ‘unattended’ or…
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The Peter Principle
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The Peter Principle The Peter Principle, as referenced above, is, “the theory that employees within an organization will advance to their highest level of…
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Temporary Stored Procedures
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We are all familiar with table variables, local temp tables, and global temp tables but what some people over look is that stored procedures…
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T-SQL Command Line Options – Part 3 – PS w/ .NET
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Powershell and .NET Objects Now that we’ve covered SQLCMD.exe with the command prompt I’d like to dive into the present and future of Windows…
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Optimizing the BACKUP Command
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One challenge for a DBA is to setup the appropriate backup plans for the databases under our responsibility. It is easy to use SSMS’s…
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October Updates – SQL Server 2012 RTM CU #10
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SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update #10 is now available. KB Article: KB #2891666. Build Number is 11.0.2420. Applicable to @@VERSION 11.0.2100 through 11.0.2419. NOTE:…
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Misleading Merge Replication Error – Msg 14052
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Recently I blogged about two methods to repair transactional replication. Transactional Replication – Fixed in Minutes Today I was attempting to apply the same…
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Huge distribution database
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The Problem: Today I noticed the data drive of one of my Production servers growing. It wasn’t growing overly fast and it had been…
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Editorial: Automation
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Often I find myself thinking to myself, “if only I had one more DBA.” I’m sure we’ve all said this often enough and probably not…
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May Updates for SQL Server
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May Updates for SQL Server Cumulative Update #11 for SQL Server 2008 SP3 is now available. KB Article: KB #2834048. Build Number is 10.00.5840. Applicable…