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Foundational Material: Microsoft SQL Server Book and Blogs From The Past

Erik Darling dusts off his favorite archival-quality bloggers and books.

Representing XML data in SQL Server

In this article, we will see how to use the FOR XML statement in SQL Server to represent the result of queries in XML format.

Placing a Mark in SQL Server's Transaction Log for Fall Back

How many times have you had a programmer come to you and say they want you (the DBA) to restore their database to sometime prior to when they accidentally corrupted it? If you are doing FULL transaction logging you can do a point in time recovery to restore the database to just prior to when the corruption occurred. But in order to do that you need to know exactly when the programmer corrupted the data, which in a lot of cases is not known down to the second.

Why SQL Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes

They learned by reading your old code.

What to Do When SQL Server is Slow

Brent Ozar's session for the PASS DBA Fundamentals virtual chapter.

How to Tell If Your SQL Server Has Too Much Memory

Brent shows what Perfmon counter to watch after your SQL Server restarts.

SQL Server Graph Databases – Part 5: Importing Relational Data into a Graph Database

In the final article of this series, Robert Sheldon shows how to move from a relational structure to a graph structure using the Graph Database feature.

Scheduling a PowerShell Script Using SQL Server Agent

This article will give you insight to understand how you can schedule a powershell script you have written using SQL Server Agent.

SQL Server on Amazon RDS vs SQL Server on Amazon EC2

Exploring briefly the difference between using Amazon Machine Images running SQL Server and using SQL Server instances on Amazon's Relational Database Service.