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IDERA ER/Studio Repository Database Setup and Ports – Part 1 – SQL Server
Howdy! In this latest blog post, I will be covering the Database setup one would need for our IDERA ER/Studio Repository. Pre-requisites: SQL Server 2012-2016 (Standard and Above) SQL Server Configuration Manager Enable TCP Ports The default port is 1433. You...
Logical to Physical Data Modeling
In the last article we learned how to create a data model from scratch using ER/Studio Data Architect. In part II we will explore about how to convert a Logical Data Model into a Physical Data Model. See also: IDERA's Guide to the Three Types of Data Model:...
Modeling Graph Data Stores in ER/Studio
Modeling Background Enterprise data environments have become increasingly complex due to a proliferation of different technologies and data platforms. A given organization may have hundreds of different data stores including multiple relational database...
How to run an application under an account of a different domain
Not too long ago, I came across a scenario where a user needed to launch an application (e.g. SQL Server Management Studio) to access SQL Server, not such an unusual scenario. The catch was that the user was running the application from his personal laptop, which was...
How Can SQL Workload Analysis Help You?
To find the key points of how SQL Workload Analysis can help you, look for the ducks throughout this blog post! What Is SQL Workload Analysis? It is an add-on to SQL Diagnostic Manager and a component of the IDERA Dashboard. This dashboard is the central...
HOWTO – Monitor MS-SQL Clusters and Always-On Availability Groups
Problem: Monitoring a traditional Microsoft SQL Server cluster, one that typically has 1 active and 1 passive node, is a challenge because at any point the services, storage, and SQL Server’s engine can be running on either (or any!) node at any time. Typically...
Integrating SQL Diagnostic Manager with ServiceNow! email receiver functionality
This document describes the procedure of using email action responses in SQL DM to provide information to ServiceNow via its email receiver and parsing functionality to appropriately set field values based on information coming from the alert in SQL DM.
5 Database Reports In SQL Server Management Tools
When connecting to a SQL Server instance in SQL Server Management Studio, there are built in reports for databases you can use for free. These RDL files or SQL Server Reporting Service reports use DMVs and DMFs to retrieve meta-data about databases. You do not need to...
Why use a Date Dimension Table in a Data Warehouse
In the Data Mart, or the Data Warehouse world, there is a date dimension table in all schemas if you are using the Kimball Dimensional Modeling method. In the beginning of Dimensional Modeling, it was called a Time dimension. Since then, the Time dimension has...
Part 1: Monitoring Analysis Services(SSAS) Performance
So you’re a DBA and your manager comes in and says that the BI team wants to install and configure an instance of Analysis Service. Oh and by the way, you are going to be responsible for monitoring the availability and performance of the instance as well as making...
Service Broker Gone Wild: Dealing With sysxmitqueue Bloat
Have you ever been surprised by suddenly finding out that one of your databases has grown way beyond your expectations? Hopefully, this isn’t a surprise you get on production, as this is something easy to monitor (both database size and disk space are monitored...
Top 3 Development Environments for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) supporting extensibility and standards-compliance. Just like any other advanced RDBMS, PostgreSQL does more than retrieving or updating data. PostgreSQL is a very popular database...
2 Ways to identify that we have a bad plan in SQL Server
SQL Server is a complex RDBMS with a lot of capabilities in it. I am sure most of us have just scratched the surface when it comes to working with SQL Server (including myself). In this article, I thought to take a more complex topic and will try to demystify some of...
Top 3 Sample Databases for PostgreSQL
If a developer is attempting to learn a new process or test some code, it’s best to utilize a test environment such as a sandbox rather than the production server. A sandbox environment is the place where there are scenarios like the real world but no real world data....
Top 4 Startup Parameters DBAs Must Know
Introduction Working on a server is always something DBAs cherish. With every environment that they monitor, they want to know how applications can be optimally run on a specific server. In this constant pursuit of performance tuning, they always find unique ways of...
How do I turn off Scientific Notation in the Grid and Text Results for Sybase ASE FLOAT data type?
How do we turn off scientific notation? I’m getting this in both text and grid results for Sybase ASE servers. create table myfloat ( floater float NOT NULL) go insert myfloat select (10000000000.00) go select * from myfloat go (Output)...
How to execute IBM DB2 UDB Admin commands that are part of CLP in Aqua Data Studio ?
How to execute IBM DB2 UDB Admin Functions in Aqua Data Studio ? IBM DB2 has server SQL commands, and commands that are part of their command line tool. SQL Commands are executed on the server, while the command line commands are executed on the...
5 Different Ways to Start SQL Server Services
If nothing works, then a restart works. This is the exact sentiments that an Administrator has when it comes to working with software. If you are working as SQL Server DBA, you must have done this many times – restart SQL Server Services. It’s always interesting to...
Changing FireMonkey style at runtime
Last month Sarina DuPont blogged about loading custom FireMonkey styles on a mobile device at runtime ("How to load custom styles at runtime"). That's a very interesting approach to compile a custom style as a resource into the mobile app. This week...
Make Parameters Mandatory and Optional at the Same Time
An often overlooked feature in PowerShell is the ability to make a function parameter both optional and mandatory - at the same time. Let's for example assume you want a function that has two parameters: ComputerName and Credential. Both should be optional, but if the...