Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) in SQL2016
Implementing Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) in existing SQL Server instances with AlwaysON
2019-06-21 (first published: 2017-10-12)
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Articles
What’s Better, CTEs or Temp Tables?
Brent get's asked this question a lot, so here he has set up an example with the Stack Overflow database. His query’s goal is to find the top 5 Locations, and list the users who live in those top 5 Locations, alphabetized by their DisplayName.
2019-06-21
Using VMware VMDKs for SQL Server Database Cloning
Learn how you can clone a database with a VMDK virtual disk to store your data.
2019-06-20
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Creating Your First SQL Server Docker Container in macOS
The use of macOS by developers and IT professionals has gained popularity the past few years. Running a sandboxed SQL Server, however, has been difficult. That changed when Microsoft made SQL Server images on Docker available. In this article, Carlos Robles explains how to get started with Docker when running macOS.
2019-06-20
SandDance in Azure Data Studio
In this tip we look at how to use SandDance a powerful data visualization tool that is an extension to Azure Data Studio.
2019-06-19
SQL Server Agent for SQL Express on Linux
This article will show you how to use crontab to schedule tasks that you want to run on a SQL Server on Linux instance when no Agent is configured.
2019-06-18
3,583 reads
Resolving could not open a connection to SQL Server errors
Sometimes you may have issues connecting to SQL Server and you may get messages such as could not open a connection to SQL Server. In this tip we look at different things you can check to resolve this issue.
2019-06-18
2019-06-17
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SQL For Cosmos DB – Handling Complex JSON Structures
The JSON documents that are part of Cosmos DB document collections can be complex with arrays and nesting. In this article, Adam Aspin shows you how to query them with SQL.
2019-06-17
SQL Server Performance Benchmarking with Patterns
A SQL Server, SQL Azure and Hekaton performance bench marking application that uses patterns.
2019-06-14 (first published: 2017-10-19)
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Blogs
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Identities and Sequences V
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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