In this second part of this tip series we take a look at the dplyr package for R that can be used to query data using the R Language with SQL Server and build data visualizations.
2019-06-07
2019-06-06 (first published: 2018-01-04)
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In this independent review of SQL Provision, the Bloor analyst finds that SQL Provision’s combination of database cloning and data masking stands out with “clear advantages over competing approaches, such as data subsetting or synthetic data generation.”
2019-06-06 (first published: 2019-05-23)
In this tip we look at code you can use to convert an integer date into a datetime format. This is an issue you will face when working the history data for SQL Server Agent Jobs.
2019-06-06
As database changes are added to the DevOps pipeline, unit testing of those changes becomes crucial. In this article, Adam Hafner describes unit testing and how it applies to databases.
2019-06-06
In this tip we look at a script to find SSIS packages that are stuck executing and how to end the package execution.
2019-06-05
In this tip we look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of using triggers in SQL Server.
2019-06-05
Introduction TOP is one of the many syntactical operators available in T-SQL and at a first view, it could seem very simple and not particularly interesting. According to the official documentation, it “limits the rows returned in a query result set to a specified number of rows or percentage of rows”. The following is the […]
2019-06-04
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Learn how to remove gaps in Identity values in SQL Server caused by Identity Cache.
2019-06-04
Phil Factor demonstrates how to use SQL Clone to create 'disposable' SQL Server databases, for development and testing work. You can spin up a clone, use it to unit test your code, messing up the clone in the process, then reset the clone in seconds, ready for the next test.
2019-06-04
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
By Vinay Thakur
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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