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With over two decades of IT experience, Microsoft data platform MVP Thomas LaRock has seen nearly every SQL Server troubleshooting nightmare under the sun. In an upcoming session called "The Top 5 ...

Today's DBA is the Sherlock Holmes of IT — always in demand to solve performance mysteries. But even Sherlock needed Watson to do the footwork for him. In the same way, DBAs need smarter tools to keep ...

Check perfmon to see if maybe the SQL server is just totally out of memory. There should be no logical difference between @table and #table, but the second actually creates a database object while the ...

If you haven't installed SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1, keep it that way. If you have installed the service pack, you may be regretting it. Microsoft pulled it last week after install errors surfaced ...

I currently produce a data file on an AS400 for use in a SQL 2000 database.<BR><BR>I use the CPYTOIMPF command to produce a file from a query. I then copy it to a PC directory using the CPYTOPCD ...