Working with SQL Server Stored Procedures and .NET
Learn how to build a simple .NET application that uses SQL Server stored procedures to retrieve and update data from a database.
2019-01-03
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Articles
Review Minimum SQL Server Security Practices
In this tip we look at different things you should consider when developing your database systems to ensure you are also thinking about security best practices as well.
2019-01-02
2,792 reads
Generate a SSIS-package that reads from Twitter using Biml
Learn how to use Biml to create a SSIS-package with a Script component that can read from Twitter.
2019-01-01 (first published: 2016-04-28)
3,787 reads
Real-time performance monitoring for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
This article was co-authored by Dimitri Furman and Denzil Ribeiro Reviewed by: Danimir Ljepava, Borko Novakovic, Jovan Popovic, Rajesh Setlem, Mike Weiner Introduction In our ongoing engagements with the SQL DB Managed Instance preview customers a common requirement has been to monitor database workload performance in real time.
2019-01-01
2,287 reads
Update an Azure SQL Data Mart with ADLS files
In this tip we learn how to update the Azure SQL Data Mart in an automated way.
2019-01-01
1,758 reads
Cloning SQL Server Instances with Containers
Learn how containers and WinDocks can be used to quickly provision copies of databases.
2018-12-31
2,156 reads
How to Linux for SQL Server DBAs — Part 3
DBAs running SQL Server on Linux will not only need to understand SQL Server security well, they will also need to understand how security works on Linux. In this article, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman walks you through several examples, explaining the permissions and ownership of files and directories in Linux.
2018-12-31
2,168 reads
Have Availability Groups Gotten Easier Lately?
2018 is coming to an end, and AGs have been out for 6 years. They're stable now, right?
2018-12-28
2,749 reads
Building a Collaborative Platform to Speed up Data Analysis
In this article, Feodor demonstrates the architecture, workflow, and some of the challenges of a collaborative platform (cloud foundation) for speeding up enterprises in their search for analytical power. He uses an example from the EA Billing solution, which was presented in the previous articles of the series.
2018-12-27
2,332 reads
Auto Generate NetBackup script to backup SQL Server databases
In this tip we look at how we can use SQL Server to auto generate a backup script for NetBackup to make sure we backup the required databases.
2018-12-26
1,876 reads
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Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
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Updating the Data API Builder
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T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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