One of the more essential SQL Server tools is its trace utility. With it you can view the activity occurring against a SQL Server for diagnostic, informational, and other purposes. Because it lets you ...

In the past, the question of how to perform auditing under SQL Server has had a simple answer: Do it yourself. But now, SQL Server 2000 has eased the burden of auditing by introducing an extensive and ...

【IT168 技术文档】全世界的 SQL Server DBA 都有一个似乎永远无法解决的难题：故障排除，其中所执行的绝大多数故障排除都是为了查找某种性能问题。即使是最精心构建并经过测试的应用程序系统都会随着时间的推移发生变化，进而导致可能出现重大的性能问题。

In an earlier blog I talked about the difference in mentality between the typical developer and the typical DBA. One of the characteristics of the DBA is the distrust of the Microsoft Wizards. “Give ...

One of the dreaded error codes we get in the SQL log is the “1205”. It represents the infamous deadlock where two transactions are locking each other out. No way ...