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Take the mystery out of sysschedules and interpret the data into a plain text format.  Read more...

Although linear regressions can get complicated, most jobs involving the plotting of a trendline are easy. Simple Linear Regression is handy for the SQL Programmer in making a prediction of a linear trend and giving a figure for the level probability for the prediction, and what is more, they are easy to do with the aggregation that is built into SQL.  Read more...

Dattatrey Sindol explains the different ways in which you can get the row counts from all the tables in a SQL Server database.  Read more...

This article will talk about preparing a runbook in Azure to schedule the report of space usage of databases in Azure environment  Read more...

In this free eBook Shawn McGehee offers advice on query tuning, cutting stored procedures, and system process design and implementation for high availability. Discover how to perform backup and restore operations using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), basic T-SQL scripts and Redgate's SQL Backup tool.  Read more...

For most application developers, it's unthinkable to work without version control. What about the database? What's stopping you version controlling yours?   Read more...

Systems with a large number of requests on a critical database table are prone to blocking and slowness. We take a look at getting things done using T-SQL table hints.  Read more...

Paul White walks through a new trace flag in SQL Server 2016 designed to yield better execution plans (and performance) for queries involving computed columns.  Read more...

Statistical calculations in SQL are often perfectly easy to do. SQL was designed to be a natural fit for calculating correlation, regression and variance on large quantities of data. It just isn't always immediately obvious how. In the second of a series of articles, Phil factor shows how calculating a non-parametric correlation via Kendall's Tau or Spearman's Rho can be stress-free.  Read more...

What is normal? More to the point, what is abnormal? We will look at using R to score outliers in a typical monitoring dataset.  Read more...

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly event where SQL Server bloggers write a post based on a subject chosen by the...  Read more...

A question that regularly comes up when I talk about containers is, “can you specify where the containers/images live on...  Read more...