Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...
PowerShell gives DBAs a reason to begin using SMO for real, so now we'll find out about all the gory details I was talking to a good friend at Microsoft last week, telling him about the problems I’ve ...
SQL Server 2008 has a ton of new DBA features, but if you really want to make this thing go, just crank out a little code. SQL Server 2008 is mostly in the domain of system and database administrators ...
Last time we discussed creating a script that can retrieve configuration settings from a list of SQL Servers and placing that data into a SQL Server table. Now, let's take a look at another technology ...
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Although spanking new in Katmai, Policy-Based Management already seems mature. The inclusion of PowerShell will reinvent the way DBAs manage their environments by taking complicated cursors out of ...
SQL Server 2008, aka “Katmai,” gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements ...
SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...
Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...