Welcome to this new series -- in this column, I hope to impart some quick, short tips that will help you make quick work of managing and administering your SQL Server databases. First up is an ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

I'm hosting a handful of websites on a windows shared host. They all use the webhost's SQL Server which is housed on a seperate box from the web server.<BR><BR>I want to automate backups of the ...

In this article, we will look at how to identify and fix performance issues in Go programs using the pprof and trace packages. We will begin by covering the fundamentals of the tools, then delving ...

Goldman Sachs says AI will boost productivity, cause a short spike in unemployment, and disrupt some jobs, but the impact will be brief. Acrobat Studio combines Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express, and ...

For the past several weeks I’ve been doing nothing but complaining about vendors so I thought I’d take a break and write something about SQL Server for a change. So to that end today I’m gonna talk ...

I have a SQL Server 2000 database and I need to put a functional copy of it on a laptop. I planned on doing a simple backup/restore to get it over there but I'm running into problems. <BR><BR>1st of ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...