This weeks episode we are pleased to host Andy Leonard to discuss his thoughts on the catalog and how this feature provides some really interesting benefits for ETL architecture. Although the SSIS Catalog DB is created with management studio, it does not behave like other databases.  Our conversation in this episode revolves around the catalog, SSIS packages, and some of the complexities of migrating …

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Max Server Memory Setting Explained If you have more memory than your database and applications on the SQL Server will ever use than this is not a problem, but when you run into memory constraints this setting is much more important. SQL Server attempts to use as much memory as possible, and when there is no more memory available, SQL …

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I received this rave today about the Database Health Reports.  It has been posted on the Raving Fans page. 7/17/2013 – Beta 6 Rave The software is really good, I am using very regularly to audit and performance tune the SQL instances that I administer. Managed to knock a third of a large SSIS pipeline’s runtime just from using the …

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