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SQL SERVER – Parsing SSIS Catalog Messages – Notes from the Field #030

May 29, 2014

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Scripts, SSIS

[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Field series. SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) is one of the most key essential part of the entire Business Intelligence (BI) story. It is a platform for data integration and workflow applications. The tool may also be used…

SQL SERVER – Database File Names and Extentions – Notes from the Field #025

April 24, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore

[Notes from Pinal]: People believe Shakespeare’s birth date is on April 26. ” What is there in a name?” – I often hear this statement, which famously quotes from Shakespeare. I think we developer believe in this statement as most of our various are either BAR or FOO. However, this…

SQL SERVER – Tools for Proactive DBAs – Central Management Server – Notes from the Field #024

April 17, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Scripts

[Note from Pinal]: This is a new episode of Notes from the Fields series. AlwaysOn is a very complex subject and not everyone knows many things about this. The matter of the fact is there is very little information available on this subject online and not everyone knows everything about…

SQL SERVER – Finding Last Backup Time for All Database – Last Full, Differential and Log Backup – Optimized

April 14, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Backup and Restore, SQL DMV

Four years ago, I wrote a blog post SQL SERVER – Finding Last Backup Time for All DatabaseDatabase – Last Full, Differential and Log Backup. Well, in technology, there is always space for improvement and we should always be ready to learn and progress. SQL Expert TheSQLGuru came up with…

SQL SERVER – Finding Jobs Shrinking Database Files – Notes from the Field #023

April 10, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, Shrinking Database, SQL Backup and Restore

[Notes from Pinal]: Search on the internet about ‘Shrinking Database’, you will find plenty of advice why it is bad and it should not be done. If you do not believe me, just try it yourself. Even I have blogged about it before that it is an absolutely bad thing…

SQL SERVER – SSIS Data Flow Troubleshooting – Part1 – Notes from the Field #019

March 13, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore, SSIS

SQL SERVER – Dude, Where is the SQL Agent Job History? – Notes from the Field #017

February 27, 2014

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore

[Note from Pinal]: Everybody knows what is SQL Agent Jobs. We know that they run at regular interval and does the task assigned. However, there are way many more things we should know about SQL Jobs but do not know it or never learnt to care about it. One of…