2020-09-21 (first published: 2020-08-25)
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Articles
Understanding SQL Server Recovery Models
The database recovery model controls how a SQL Server database can be backed up and restored. In this article, Greg Larsen explains the three recovery models and what to think about when choosing a recovery model for a database.
2020-09-21
Why you should embed monitoring earlier in your Database DevOps cycle
With insights from a recent Gartner report, Redgate’s Jamie Wallis looks at the benefits of tracking, and acting on, key metrics early in the DevOps process and how they can apply equally to database monitoring.
2020-09-21
SQL Server on Amazon RDS vs SQL Server on Amazon EC2
Exploring briefly the difference between using Amazon Machine Images running SQL Server and using SQL Server instances on Amazon's Relational Database Service.
2020-09-18 (first published: 2018-04-12)
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Posting SQL Server Notifications to Slack
In this article we look at how to send Slack notifications when certain events occur in a SQL Server database.
2020-09-18
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.
2020-09-17
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Heaps in SQL Server: Part 3 Nonclustered Indexes
Uwe Ricken continues his series on heaps. This time he demonstrates a common scenario where the query against a heap is faster than a clustered index.
2020-09-17
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 […]
2020-09-16
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Free eBook: Defensive Database Programming
Resilient T-SQL code is code that is designed to last, and to be safely reused by others. The goal of defensive database programming, the goal of this book, is to help you to produce resilient T-SQL code that robustly and gracefully handles cases of unintended use, and is resilient to common changes to the database environment.
2020-09-16 (first published: 2013-08-28)
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Power BI Histogram Example using DAX
Companies use a Bell Curve approach to measure performance. As part of this approach they create a histogram. A histogram is a statistical concept and according to Wikipedia it is defined as a graphical distribution of the numerical data. A histogram is made of several bins and bins can be considered a range of values or a benchmark
2020-09-16
Blogs
Daily Coping 18 Sep 2020
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Optimize for Unknown for Inline Table-Valued Functions
I had a curious performance issue today. An inline table-valued function (iTVF) was performing...
Daily Coping 17 Sep 2020
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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