Conditional Formatting with SSRS
An introduction on how to implement condition formatting of cells, such as the font and background colour or font weight, within SSRS using SSRS Expressions.
Securing Your Instances
This week Steve Jones looks at moving the port numbers of your instances for a bit of security.
Is Azure SQL Database a Good Choice for your Database Applications?
In this article, we cover things you should know about Azure SQL Database and why this may be a good choice for your database applications.
Why bother automating?
Bob Pusateri, Database Engineering Lead at Salesforce, joined our recent Summit to discuss how automation can enable digital transformation. Listen in full.
AI Medical Record Scanning
Artificial Intelligence can help humans, both in diagnosis, but also in teaching medical professionals.
Amazon RDS - Configuring a Connection to a SQL Server Instance
In this article, you will learn how to configure an RDS database for connections from client tools.
Calling Procs from PowerShell with Parameters
Building on his last article, Frank shows how to add parameters to your stored procedure calls from PoSh.
Change the Instance Collation by Rebuilding Databases in SQL Server 2017
As a part of my DBA activities, I do a lot of SQL Server installations every week. Most of the time, I install the instance with the default collation. A collation is a configuration setting in SQL Server that determines how the database engine should read the data. SQL Server has huge list of collations […]
Indexes: When Column Selectivity Is Not Always A Requirement
While preparing for my SQL Saturday Salt Lake City presentation, Climbing the B-Tree, I ran into one of the “word of mouth” facts that the first column of an index should be highly selective, i.e., it should only point to one or a few rows. This is not always the case and I’ll show you […]
Blogs
Hyperconverged storage tuning tip for SQL Server
By kleegeek
We all (should) know that running SQL Server in hyperconverged virtual environments, both on-premises...
Daily Coping 25 Nov 2022
By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to connect with someone from a different generation. This tip...
Snowflake Classic UI vs Snowsight
By Arun Sirpal
This blog post is not about which User Interface is better, Classic or Snowsight...
Forums
Can someone explain where non - clustered index is stored?
I am learning non-clustered and clustered indexing. When reading this article https://www.sqlshack.com/what-is-the-difference-between-clustered-and-non-clustered-indexes-in-sql-server/#:~:text=Clustered%20indexes%20only%20sort%20tables,involve%20any%20extra%20lookup%20step. came across this...
Null value when checking unused indexes
I'm using this query to check if I have any unused indexes.. One of...
Retrieve Password from CyberArk using powershell
Hi, I am new to Powershell script and i have to create a power...
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