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The first installment of this series illustrating the power of Windows PowerShell in conjunction with SQL Server 2008 demonstrates how to install and use a simple PowerShell command and a simple AMO command.

One of the housekeeping challenges DBAs face is to keep track of their databases' growth and how much space is being used by each table and index in those databases. SpaceUsedAnalyzer extends the functionality of the spaceused system stored procedure to present information that is more detailed.

Sean Hull examines some of the issues and problems with MySQL replication, offering examples to show why they are issues.

In Part II of this series, we showed you a step-by-step example of Integrated installation of a SQL Server 2008 cluster. In this article, we will move onto the other installation option - Advanced/Enterprise installation.

Learn how to join disparate or seemingly unrelated data using an Oracle-provided pseudo column to create the linkage.

In the previous installment of our series, we started discussing the use of certificates in authenticating Service Broker conversations in a distributed environment This installment presents the remaining steps necessary to establish Service Broker dialog in the distributed environment while leveraging certificate-based authentication.

This article examines the Recovery Model options used by SQL Server 2008 and the various methods that can be used to backup a database such as Differential and Transaction Logging. In addition, Transaction Logs, the mechanism that makes Recovery Models possible will be introduced.

Learn how to use health checks to stay on top of corruption in your Oracle database.

Part 8 of our discussion on how to check SQL Server using Windows PowerShell examines how to get the SQL Server connection information.

Learn how the appropriate use of attribute member Value can support the selection and delivery of enterprise data in a more focused and consumer-friendly manner. Join BI Architect Bill Pearson in a hands-on examination of the attribute member Value property and its underlying settings in Analysis Services.

It's time for the SQL Anywhere Oscars, when folks tune in to see which of their favorite features were picked, which weren't and to see some weird stuff... it's all here.

This article illustrates how Oracle Database 11gR1 has expanded ADDM to encompass Real Application Clusters (RAC) database tuning at the global level and provided the ability to filter out previously identified performance issues from any ADDM analysis report.

BI Architect Bill Pearson introduces a group of related articles surrounding chart reports for Analysis Services data sources. In this article, we examine chart types that are available, and look forward to coming articles that specify details involving the use of each in reporting Analysis Services data.

One of the issues that companies are facing in their operations is database migration to new hardware, or a different operating system platform, or even a new database vendor. This article describes the overall process.

With SQL Server 2008's new Data Collection feature and the Management Data Warehouse (MDW), came three system Data Collection sets. This article covers the different data collection standard reports that have been provided to display information related to the statistics collected by the system data collections.

Part 20 of the "SqlCredit – Developing a Complete SQL Server OLTP Database Project" examines SQL 2005’s NTILE() and ROW_NUMBER() Ranking Functions.

STATSPACK is still very much a viable option for monitoring and diagnosing database performance. Even though it seems as if AWR and ADDM have voted to send STATSPACK to Exile Island, treasures and rewards can still be found, but it's up to you to find them and make the most of what's available.

Implementing a dialog between two services residing in a distributed environment requires the presence of an authentication mechanism. Windows-based Kerberos protocol limits the scope of systems participating in a Service Broker dialog to those residing in the same or trusted Active Directory domains. This article provides an overview of how to eliminate this limitation by employing certificates.

Thanks to internet search engines, users are used to searching for text but unfortunately even the desktop search tools can't look into tables (easily). This article outlines a simple tool to search Access tables or linked tables to find if a text string(s) exists in those tables.

Oracle has many hints to choose from; know what they are and how they are different from one another before tossing them into production.