Phil Factor delves into SQL Prompt's performance rule, PE012, which will advise you if it detects the use of the SET statements within a stored procedure or trigger, which might cause unnecessary recompilations, though the issue extends to other types of batches.
2020-02-07
Brent Ozar discusses performance tuning and how From the outside it looks more complicated than it is, but at the end of the day, it always comes back to just 3 knobs and knowing which ones you can turn.
2020-02-07
Learn how to use the PIVOT operator in SQL in a step-by-step manner.
2020-02-06
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Window functions are useful for solving many SQL queries. In this article, Ed Pollack demonstrates how they can be used to analyse baseball winning streaks.
2020-02-06
Redgate has added new capabilities to the Deployment Suite for Oracle, so it now supports automated migrations-based and state-based Oracle deployments on both Linux and Windows. They've introduced Redgate Change Control, a new capability for understanding development changes, generating migration scripts for version control, and getting precise control over the migration path during automated deployments. Our Schema Compare and Data Compare for Oracle command line tools have been extended to Linux as well as Windows, and we’ve added static code analysis that encourages teams to follow good coding practices on Windows or Linux.
2020-02-06
Giorgi Abashidze explains how his team use a 2-phase deployment process with SQL Compare Command line, and some SQL Synonyms, to automate custom deployments for each of their customers, while only needing to maintain one branch per release in source control.
2020-02-05
In this article we look at how to load time series data into SQL Server both for an initial load as well as adding new data.
2020-02-05
Introduction In Financial Data, analyzing the Moving Average (MA) is a very common practice. The direction of the moving average conveys important information about prices, whether that average is simple or exponential. A rising moving average shows that prices are generally increasing. A falling moving average indicates that prices, on average, are falling. This article […]
2020-02-04
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In this tip we look at the impact of building SQL Server indexes in ascending versus descending order and the impact.
2020-02-04
Kendra Little sat down with the SQL Change Automation Dev Team to get some insight into how they build the product with the customers in mind. SQL Change Automation 4.1 included adding support for the tracking of static data tables to the SSMS extension. This was a direct result of the communication and work the team have carried out with their customer base. Read Kendra’s blog to find out more about the release and the work that goes into delivering these updates.
2020-02-04
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