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• Blocking Users by IP

  SQL Server MVP Brian Kelley brings us a great new article that solves a problem that might help your security. In this short piece, we learn how we can use logon triggers to block users based on their IP address. New! SQL Monitor HostedStart monitoring your SQL Servers in under 5 minutes. Get clear insights into server performance, whilst we manage the monitoring software. Find out more.

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• Performance Tuning in the Age of Big Data

  Database Administrators must now deal with large volumes of data and new forms of high-speed data analysis. If your responsibility includes performance tuning, here are the areas to focus on that will become more and more important in the age of Big Data. Total DeploymentEnjoy easy release management for your .NET apps, services, and databases with Deployment Manager. Get your free Starter edition now

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• Creating Indicator and Gauge Report in SSRS - SQL Server 2008 R2

  SQL Server Reporting Services allows you to embed indicators and Gauges in your report to analyze the data and its state. Indicators are minimal gauges that convey the state of a single data value at a glance and are mostly used to represent state value of Key Performance Indicator (KPI). New! SQL Monitor 3.0 Red Gate's multi-server performance monitoring and alerting tool gets results from Day One.Simple to install and easy to use – download a free trial today.

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• Transaction Log Growth, do you need it?

  One of the most common questions asked about SQL Server has to do with the transaction log and why does it grow. James Rea brings us a good explanation here of what happens and what you should do about it.

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• TSQL Challenge 25 - Appointments and Recurring Schedules

  The task is to look at the appointments and the recurrence of schedules to come up with a list of meetings for a given period.

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• Free eBook: Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA

  Three SQL Server MVPs (Jonathan Kehayias, Ted Krueger and Gail Shaw) provide fascinating insight into the most common SQL Server problems, why they occur, and how they can be diagnosed using tools such as Performance Monitor, Dynamic Management Views and server-side tracing. The focus is on practical solutions for removing root causes of these problems, rather than "papering over the cracks".

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• Moving Data From Excel to SQL Server - 10 Steps to Follow

  SQL Server Integration Services provide a versatile way of reading Excel files into SQL Server. A task like this illustrates the advantages of the graphical approach of SSIS. Andy Brown explains. Want to work faster with SQL Server?If you want to work faster try out the SQL Toolbelt. "The SQL Toolbelt provides tools that database developers as well as DBAs should not live without." William Van Orden. Download the SQL Toolbelt here.

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• Designing & Maintaining SQL Server Transactional Replication Environments

  Microsoft IT protects against unplanned Transactional Replication outages and issues by using best practices and proactive monitoring. This results in increased stability, simplified management and improved performance of transactional replication environments. New! SQL Backup Pro 7.2 - easy, automated backup and restoresTry out the latest features and get faster, smaller, verified backups. Download a free trial.

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• New SQL Monitor Metric: Principals with Sysadmin Login

  This metric counts the number of principals who are members of the sysadmin fixed server role. SQL Server relies on role-based security to manage permissions. If multiple IT system administrators have permissions to set up new SQL Server logins, they might be inclined to do so as part of the sysadmin role. Adding a normal user to the sysadmin role could pose a security risk and is not recommended unless the principal is highly trusted.

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• DAX Statistical Functions

  Following on from his first four articles on using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) with tabular databases, Robert Sheldon dives into some of the DAX statistical functions available, demonstrating which are the most useful and examples of how they work. The seven tools in the SQL DBA Bundle support your core SQL Server database administration tasks.Make backups a breeze! Enjoy trouble-free troubleshooting! Make the most of monitoring! Download a free trial now.

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• TDE, EKM and the Asymmetric Key

  A look at how you might recover from a disaster using encryption and an HSM module in SQL Server 2008.

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• Writing a Data Access Layer (DAL) for SQL Server

  In this tip, I am going to show you how you can create a Data Access Layer (to store, retrieve and manage data in relational database) in ADO .NET. I will show how you can make it data provider independent, so that you don't have to re-write your data access layer if the data storage source changes and also you can reuse it in other applications that you develop. Free trial of SQL Backup™“SQL Backup was able to cut down my backup time significantly AND achieved a 90% compression at the same time!” Joe Cheng. Download a free trial now.

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• Introduction into handling errors in PowerShell for SQL Server tasks

  PowerShell is becoming a great tool for managing SQL Server tasks, but like most tasks that are coded there is always the need for error handling to deal with the unknown. PowerShell has several options for handling and capturing error details and in this tip we will explain these options using PowerShell for SQL Server examples. What are your servers really trying to tell you? Find out with new SQL Monitor 3.0, an easy-to-use tool built for no-nonsense database professionals.For effortless insights into SQL Server, download a free trial today.

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• No Significant Fragmentation? Look Closer…

  If you are relying on using 'best-practice' percentage-based thresholds when you are creating an index maintenance plan for a SQL Server that checks the fragmentation in your pages, you may miss occasional 'edge' conditions on larger tables that will cause severe degradation in performance. It is worth being aware of patterns of data access in particular tables when judging the best threshold figure to use.

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• The SQL Saturday Australia Tour

  Free days of training in Australia during the spring of 2012. Apr 12 in Brisbane, Apr 14 in Wellinton, Apr 19 in Canberra, Apr 21 in Sydney, Apr 24 in Adelaide, and Apr 28 in Perth. What are your servers really trying to tell you? Find out with new SQL Monitor 3.0, an easy-to-use tool built for no-nonsense database professionals.For effortless insights into SQL Server, download a free trial today.

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• Securing Reporting Services Reports

  Learn how you can get the userid of someone connected to Reporting Services and use that information to determine if they can view the report.

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• Database Deployment: The Bits - Getting Data In

  Quite often, the database developer or tester is faced with having to load data into a newly created database. What could be simpler? Quite a lot of things, it seems. SQL Backup Pro wins Gold Community Choice AwardFind out why the SQL Server Community voted SQL Backup Pro 'Best Backup and Recovery Product 2012'. Get faster, smaller, fully verified backups. Download a free trial now.

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• Report Building 3.0: Adding Maps to Your Reports

  With Report Builder and SSMS, there isn't much you can't do in the way of the common reports and visualisations. One of the more interesting visualisations uses maps, and that, combined with layers, makes for an impressive way of representing data. NEW! The easiest way to deploy .NET codeDeploy ASP.NET applications fast, frequently, and without fuss, using Deployment Manager, the new tool from Red Gate. Try it now.

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• SQLskills training goes online worldwide (and free in September!)

  SQLskills is recording their knowledge in conjunction with Pluralsight for you to view from the time and place of your choosing. And it's free in September. Read more to find out how you can get access. Learn Agile Database Development Best PracticesAgile database development experts Sebastian Meine and Dennis Lloyd are running day-long classes designed to complement Red Gate’s SQL in the City US tour. Classes will be held in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and Seattle. Register Now.

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• Clustered instance will not start after removing builtin admins

  After removing the builtin administrators group the clustered services do not start. Perry Whittle walks through the issue and what you can do to correct things.

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• SQL Server Management Studio keyboard shortcuts - Part 1

  As responsibilities are growing every day, a DBA or developer needs to improve his/her productivity. One way to do this is to use as many shortcuts as possible instead of using your mouse and the menus. In this tip we take a look at common tasks you may perform when using SSMS and the associated shortcut keys. SQL Backup Pro SQL Backup Pro was the smartest kid at school. Discover why.

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• Handling Deadlocks in SQL Server

  In this excerpt from his book Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA, Jonathan Kehayias provides a guide to identifying the causes, reacting to, and ultimately preventing the dreaded deadlock. What are your servers really trying to tell you? Find out with new SQL Monitor 3.0, an easy-to-use tool built for no-nonsense database professionals.For effortless insights into SQL Server, download a free trial today.

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• Cursor-Killing: Retrieving Recently Modified Data

  Cursors are considered by many to be the bane of good T-SQL. What are the best ways to avoid iterative T-SQL and to write queries that look and perform beautifully? In the next part of an ongoing series, we look at ways to efficiently retrieve recently modified data. FREE eBook – "45 Database Performance Tips for Developers"Improve your database performance with 45 tips from SQL Server MVPs and industry experts. Get the eBook here.

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• Stairway to T-SQL DML Level 12: Using the MERGE Statement

  The final level of this stairway looks at the MERGE statement in detail, focusing on how to perform insert, update and delete logic using the MERGE statement. An accidental DBA? Try SQL MonitorUse the 30-day full product free trial to get easy-to-understand insights into SQL Server, and get suggestions on how to solve the type of issues that are uncovered. Begin your free trial.

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• The SQL of Membership: Equivalence Classes & Cliques

  It is awkward to do 'Graph databases' in SQL to explore the sort of relationships and memberships in social networks because equivalence relations are classes (a set of sets) rather than sets. However one can explore graphs in SQL if the relationship has all three of the mathematical properties needed for an equivalence relationship. FREE eBook – "45 Database Performance Tips for Developers"Improve your database performance with 45 tips from SQL Server MVPs and industry experts. Get the eBook here.

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