SQL Server DBA On-Boarding Checklist (MSSQLTips 06/20/2017)

[View MSSQLTips newsletter online]( [Tutorials]( | [Tips]( | [Videos]( | [DBA]( | [Developer]( | [Business Intelligence]( [Easily find & fix performance issues with SQL Diagnostic Manager]( [SQL Server DBA On-Boarding Checklist]( Database Administrator (DBA) on-boarding is not always as efficient as it could be. Whether this is for new full time employees or contractors. Check out this checklist to make sure your next hire is productive much quicker.... [Design Patterns for Calculated Tables in Power BI]( In this tip we look at how you can use calculated tables to solve business problems when using Power BI.... [Performance Tuning Your SQL Server Database and Maybe Even Your Data]( In this session, we will go over key performance issues affecting both SQL Server OLTP & OLAP workloads, show how to identify them, and options for correcting them. And while SQL Server has made great strides in improving performance automatically, s... [Create a High Performance SANLess SQL Server Cluster]( Making SQL Server deployments resilient to failures is a goal most want to achieve. Whether you are trying to account for high availability and/or disaster recovery, there are various methods to achieve the end goal. One of the most popular approache... [Free SQL Server Conference - Enter Now!]( MSSQLTips is giving away a 5-day conference pass and a $1000 USD travel allowance to the Visual Studio LIVE - Redmond, WA - August 14-18, 2017 to one lucky database professional. Visual Studio LIVE will be held at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA... [SQL Server 2012 Best Practices Analyzer TempDB Recommendations]( In a previous tip, SQL Server 2012 cluster with TempDB on local disk, we discussed Microsoft's official support of local disk tempdb in SQL Server cluster configurations. This tip will show you how to utilize the SQL Server 2012 Best Practices Analyzer (B... [Introduction to Data Explorer for Excel]( I have been hearing about a new tool from Microsoft called Data Explorer. I would like to know what this tool is all about, how to install it, and how to get started with it.... [Creating SSIS Package Templates for Reusability]( We often need to create similar SSIS packages which contain some common components such as connection managers, data flow components, log providers, event handlers, etc... So do we really need to create a package from scratch each time and add all these c... [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Google+]( You are receiving this as a subscriber of MSSQLTips.com. If you wish to discontinue receiving email, please send us an email to [unsubscribe](mailto:unsubscribe@mssqltips.com?subject=UNSUBSCRIBE). Edgewood Solutions LLC PO Box 682 | Wilton, NH 03086 [Privacy Statement]( Sent to: {EMAIL}