Kevin Kline recaps a webinar with the SQLskills team, where they discussed their top SQL Server troubleshooting horror stories and the lessons learned.
Category: Best Practices
In this blog, Kevin Kline shares the top 10 most common SQL Server mistakes made by DBAs, and resources to help avoid them.
Itzik Ben-Gan resumes his blog series on T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best practices, treating an issue with correlated column references in subqueries.
Itzik Ben-Gan starts a new blog series on T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best practices, leading off with some common issues involving determinism.
Aaron Bertrand breathes some new life into his long-running SQL Server series on bad habits and best practices. The latest installment discusses the various impacts of choosing GUIDs over numeric types for keys.
Don't take SQL Server Missing Index recommendations at face value. They have numerous limitations. In this blog post, Andy Yun explores one of these: Index Key Order.
MS MVP Kevin Kline walks through two ways to prepare for a peaceful and uninterrupted holiday: technology and process.
Get an overview of HIPAA regulations along with compliance tips and best practices from a healthcare legal specialist from the point of view of the DBA.
Get the slides and Transact-SQL demo scripts from my recent presentation at the Baltimore SQL Server user group meeting.
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Stronger Security Via Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2016.
The Top 10 Mistakes Made by SQL Server DBAs
Aaron Bertrand continues his series on bad habits and best practices, this time focusing on the benefits of referencing columns in a query.
Aaron Bertrand treats a common scenario: behavior differs between two SQL Server databases that may be the same version, but different compatibility levels.
