Prefer tabs but your teammates use spaces? That's not a problem with the brand new formatting options in SQL Prompt. It's now possible to customize, save, and share multiple styles that you can then quickly switch between when working. Here's how it works, and how to get set up.
2017-06-06
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Paul White describes temporary object caching in SQL Server – what it is, why it exists, and how to use it to your advantage.
2017-06-06
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This article shows a few techniques with SQLCLR to to transform a query result into HTML.
2017-06-05
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If you are running Windows 8 and above, you might have found out that you can’t find SQL Server Configuration Manager in the list of installed applications. Read on to learn how to locate it.
2017-06-05
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Scalar user defined functions can be costly in more ways than you know. Watch Mickey Stuewe show the hidden costs of using them incorrectly.
2017-06-02 (first published: 2016-01-04)
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Free download to all Simple Talk users. XML has been part of the SQL Standard since 2003, and is essential for any DBA because so many of the dynamic management views return XML data. Now that the industry is more used to data defined by document markup, it is becoming more important than ever for Database Developers and DBAs to understand the technology and to know where it makes sense to use XML.
2017-06-02
6,152 reads
Although the techniques of Database Lifecycle Management can reduce the timescales for the delivery of new functionality to business systems, what if the database 'layer' consists of several large interdependent databases and data flows with replication and audit? Does DLM scale to this level of complexity? Margaret Cruise O'Brien starts a series of articles that describes the practicalities of improving DLM within an existing framework and team supporting a multi-database multi-server system, by describing some of the database management problems and solutions in an enterprise-scale database.
2017-06-02
2,744 reads
Using a CData DataCmdlet and sqlps to replicate data from Google Spreadsheets to a SQL Server database in PowerShell
2017-06-01
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Derik Hammer sets out to disprove another pervasive performance myth : TRUNCATE is faster than DELETE because it isn't logged and can't be rolled back.
2017-06-01
4,663 reads
How do you quantify the value of DevOps? The answer might depend on what value actually means for your organization, which stakeholder you’re talking to, and what type of...
2017-06-01
2,805 reads
By Chris Yates
The New Leadership Frontier In today’s digital landscape, leaders are no longer just visionaries....
By Steve Jones
anderance – n. the awareness that your partner perceives the relationship from a totally...
By gbargsley
We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
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