Ola Hallengren’s free scripts for backup, integrity check and index optimization in SQL Server 2005 and 2008, with notes from Ola on how they work.
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SQLAuthority News – Notes of Excellent Experience at SQL PASS 2009 Summit, Seattle
My notes from SQL PASS 2009 Summit in Seattle: why I went, from networking to putting faces to names, and links to my posts from all four days.
smallmoney: Four Fractional Digits Need a Contract
smallmoney stores a bounded numeric amount with four fractional digits. These explicit conversions show retained and changed digits without making a financial storage recommendation.
Storage Settings That Matter for SQL Server
Storage settings That Matter for SQL Server include latency, file placement, allocation unit size, and file growth; learn what to verify.
SQL SERVER – Policy Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies
A full walk through Policy Based Management in SQL Server 2008: the policy framework, facets and conditions, then creating, evaluating and fixing policies.
SQL SERVER – Disable CHECK Constraint – Enable CHECK Constraint
Need to disable CHECK constraint validation for a bulk load? Here is how, and how to enable it again with WITH CHECK CHECK CONSTRAINT, the syntax with CHECK twice.
geometry STSymDifference: Keep the Parts Outside the Overlap
geometry STSymDifference keeps points belonging to either input while excluding their shared portion. I use it when both sides’ exclusive regions matter. Directed subtraction would answer a different question about only one side.
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