Few days ago I have noticed that there will be a change (again) in certification paths for next generation of SQL servers. So I would like to recommend some thoughts about this from Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM) of Brent Ozar PLF Company.
Michal Tinthofer is the face of the Woodler company which (as he does), is fully committed to complete support of Microsoft SQL Server products to its customers. He often acts as a database architect, performance tuner, administrator, SQL Server monitoring developer (Woodler SMT) and, last but not least, a trainer of people who are developing their skills in this area. His current "Quest" is to help admins and developers to quickly and accurately identify issues related to their work and SQL Server runtime.
Last week of May we had the pleasure of sponsoring another great data event - Data Point Prague, held at the Comfort Hotel in Prague.
Read moreRecently, we found an interesting pattern during exploring one of our SMT graphs while doing a health check of a SQL server. The following graph shows us the Load Factor attribute. The value came from system table sys.dm_os_schedulers, which the SMT tool
Read moreBackup device is a standard backup file. But this file is registered in management studio and often used to store more than one backups from database. There are also some pros and cons in usage compared to standard backups stored in folders and made by ma
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