SQL SERVER – SSMS: Transaction Log Shipping Status Report
History has its own way to define now civilizations thrived. Most of the cities flourished in the river side and transporting lumber was one of the key activity. Most of the cities like Seattle and many others have this boom and bust life. The idea here was to cut the timber upstream and use the natural flow of rivers to transport to factories downstream using the river. These are classic and wonderful examples of how we typically work with Log-Shipping in SQL Server too. This blog is about Transaction Log Shipping Status report.
SQL SERVER – Activity Reports – Dormant Sessions
With schools starting for my daughter, I rarely get involved in her daily routine activity. But there is one thing that I don’t try to miss – the parents-teachers meet. Sometimes it is not about the report card on how my daughter faired against the rest in the class but it is more than that. I am curious to understand how she behaves in the class, how she makes friends in class, how her extra-curricular activities are, is she disciplined overall etc. Those are key attributes and traits I am looking at getting as feedback from the teachers in that hour of interactions. Let us learn about Dormant Sessions in this blog post.
SQL SERVER – Difference Between SQL Login and SQL User – SQL in Sixty Seconds #070
“What is the difference between SQL Login and SQL User in SQL Server?”
SQL SERVER – What is Biml and How Can it Help Me with SQL Server BI? – Notes from the Field #036
[Note from Pinal]: This is a 36th episode of Notes from the Field series. One of the common questions I receive every other day is – I have learned BI but I feel that there is no automation in the BI field, what should I do? How do I go beyond learning BI? How can I fill the gap between BIDS and SSDT? If you have been reading this blog, when it is about BI, I always take help from LinchPin People who are BI experts. I requested Reeves from LinchiPin people to help me answer this unique question.
SQL SERVER – SSMS: Server Dashboard Report
The term dashboards come from the automobile world where it meant as instrumentation or controls for operating a vehicle. In the IT parlance, the use of dashboards meant as the state or health of system or organizations. Though this analogy cannot be taken too far because running a business is not same as running a vehicle. But the similarities of knowing the health of the system is bang-on. Let us learn about Server Dashboard Report in this blog post.
In our previous post, I gave an introduction on where to find all the SQL Server Management Studio reports. Today we will look at the first and the most basic report all of us must be working with. It is called as “Server Dashboard” report under the Server node, standard reports node.
SQL SERVER – SSIS Component Error Outputs – Notes from the Field #034
[Notes from Pinal]: Error confuses people and stops the operations. Developer search more on error online rather than best practices. Lots of people think that SSIS is all about arranging various operations together in one logical flow. Well, the understanding is absolutely correct, but the implementation of the same is not as easy as it seems.