For a couple of months we have had requests on the SQL Data Partners Podcast to do an episode on indexing. It is my pleasure to announce that the Indexing episode was released today, well at lease half of it. After we finished the recording, we realized that there was too much content to fit it in to our normal …

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Reliable DBA Services is one of the things I talk about on my business website at http://StedmanSolutions.com, but that can mean many things to different people. To me this has many meanings. Today the reliability of having RAID10 on my home office computer saved the day.   Drive Failure Last Year A year ago not long after starting working at …

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On my computer I run SQL Server 2012, and I use a number of test or development databases. I don’t run backups on these because I don’t care if they get destroyed since they are easy to replace. Recently I upgraded to a SSD, and now my C:\ drive which I am running SQL Server from is really fast, and …

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