Five SQL Server experts have brought their collective years of experience working with and maintaining SQL Server data systems to identify the four strategies required for a successful estate-wide SQL Server monitoring solution.
2019-08-26
So far in this series, Andy Brown of Wise Owl Training has shed light on functions like CALCULATE, VALUES and FILTER, but it’s only when you understand the idiosyncrasies of the EARLIER function that you can claim to have genuinely cracked DAX. This article gives four examples of the use of this peculiar function, in the process explaining why it has such a misleading name. Using the EARLIER function properly all boils down (as is so often the case with DAX) to understanding row and filter context. The article also shows how to use the RANKX function to sort data into your required order.
2019-08-26
Run multiple instances of your package in parallel so that each instance processes a portion of the total number of files
2019-08-23 (first published: 2017-11-07)
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Poor data quality for any reason is very expensive in terms of man hours and decision making to all organizations. There are a number of ways to address the issue with both SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI.
2019-08-23
Tony Davis describes the features and capabilities of SQL Monitor that allow it to scale smoothly to monitor a growing estate of servers and databases, while still providing a single, simple dashboard that gives the team all of the essential SQL Server metrics and alerts, establishes baselines, and detects trends in behavior.
2019-08-23
In this article, we look at the conceptual design for gathering information about your servers to better understand how they are performing.
2019-08-22
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Introducing the new “Teams” feature in SQL Clone. Define access to instances, images and clones for specific teams and enable devs to self-service, refreshing environments on demand.
2019-08-22
Joe Celko explains why questions requiring yes or no answers are more complicated than you might realize in both spoken language and computing.
2019-08-22
SQL Server 2005 has added many new T-SQL commands, one of which is the OUTPUT command. Longtime SQL Server author Dinesh Asanka brings us a short look at how you can use this command.
2019-08-21 (first published: 2007-07-09)
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Greta Rudžioniene provides a step-by-step guide to running SQL code analysis checks, as defined by SQL Code Guard, in SonarQube, a general-purpose code quality tool that can perform continuous code analysis on a variety of languages.
2019-08-21
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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