How to Enable and Disable Full Text Search for SQL Server Databases
Learn how to enable or disable full text search for a specific database on a SQL Server instance where the Full Text Search components have been setup.
2021-10-20
Articles
Troy Hunt talks Security and compliance in estate monitoring
Troy Hunt joins Steve Jones to discuss the critical and complex role of monitoring in organizational data security and compliance.
2021-10-20
Connect to PostgreSQL as an External Data Source using PolyBase
PolyBase is a new feature of SQL Server that allows you to connect to relational and non-relational data. You can run queries on any external data sources you might have, such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, MongoDB, Hadoop, etc. When paired with the CData ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL, you get access to your PostgreSQL data directly […]
2021-10-18
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What Is a Cost-Based Optimizer?
When you execute a query, the database server has to figure a lot of things out. For even the simplest queries, there are usually several possible ways to get the job done.
2021-10-18
Model and Log Trend Reversals for Time Series Data in SQL Server
This tip demonstrates models for detecting the start of periods of rising or falling financial securities prices based on exponential moving averages. The demonstration is simplified because it relies on a log to keep track of time series values as well as exponential moving averages with different period lengths.
2021-10-15
Monitoring Large Estates at BMW
BMW have been monitoring their SQL Server estate for more than 7 years, but with evolving technology and circumstances, monitoring also needs to change and grow. Join Tony Maddonna in conversation with Redgate's James King, to discover how BMW are handling the challenges.
2021-10-15
Database technology trends
Big data can be risky, which is why you need great estate management. Join Matt Schmelzer, Data Systems and Automation - IT, and Jonathan Holck, IT Associate, from Artisan Partners in discussion with Microsoft MVP Grant Fritchey to learn how they implemented a successful infrastructure and what tools they need to support their growing estate.
2021-10-13
SSRS IIF, Switch and Choose Functions for Dynamic and Appealing Reports
Learn how to use IIF, Switch and Choose logical functions in SSRS reports to make your reports more dynamic and more appealing to report users.
2021-10-13
Using Azure Data Studio and the SQL Migration Extension to Perform Offline Migrations
Learn how you can perform an offline migration of a SQL Server to Azure Managed Instances or IaaS VMs.
2021-10-11
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Building an ETL with PowerShell
There are many ways to load data into a SQL Server database. In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates how to get PowerShell to do more of the work.
2021-10-11
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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