Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how ADS works, shown here: Getting Started with Azure Data Studio Getting Comfortable Writing Code in Azure Data Studio Using Notebooks in Azure Data Studio Using Azure Data Studio with TFVC Using Azure Data Studio with […]
2020-09-30
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This tip provides a step by step process to create a cross tabulation report in SQL Server Reporting Services.
2020-09-30
You are invited to discover features of SQL Prompt that you may not even know exist. We will will walk you through the treasure map of SQL Prompt and show you where all the great features are buried.
2020-09-30
Phil Factor offers straightforward answers to tricky SQL Compare questions.
2020-09-30
A colleague left the company, a couple of days after SQL Server processes start failing...what do you do?
2020-09-29
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While everyone knows SQL Prompt for its code completion and IntelliSense features, a lot of its extra value comes from features that allow the development team to standardize coding practices and drive up code quality.
2020-09-29
Containers are being used by more and more organizations to automate build pipelines in their CICD processes. In this article, Mahendran Purushothaman shows how to automate the creation of Docker containers and a Kubernetes cluster in Azure.
2020-09-29
Introduction to PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is a free and general purpose open source object-relational database system that uses and extends the SQL language. Though originally designed to run on UNIX platforms, PostgreSQL is eligible to run on various platforms such as Linux, macOS, Solaris, and Windows. PostgreSQL databases provide enterprise-class database solutions and are used by […]
2020-09-28
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In my last post, I talked about how you can get 43%-67% faster backups. This time, I’m using that same SQL Server setup to discuss how throwing more CPU cores might help you check for corruption faster if you’ve already got modern fast storage.
2020-09-28
When database development is described, the details often get vague when the data gets beyond spreadsheet-size. There is 'hand-waving' talk of providing databases for each developer, but little detail of how you would provision all the databases that would be needed, at the correct version and with the correct development data, and then keep them all in sync with the source code, as developers commit changes. This article explains the requirements, and how SQL Clone can meet them.
2020-09-28
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
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Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
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This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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