SQL Server Management Studio Recovery, Reporting, Key Combinations and Efficiency Tips
Serget Gigoyan is back with another set of 5 common SSMS tips.
2017-08-07
4,928 reads
Articles
Dynamic Pivot, Passing Temp Table Variables to Dynamic SQL
This example demonstrates how to perform a pivot using dynamic headers based on the row values of a table. The article also shows how to pass a temp table variable to a Dynamic SQL call.
2017-08-04 (first published: 2015-10-22)
13,225 reads
Developing Metadata Design Patterns in BIML
You may have already experienced ETL Hell, where you have a large number of similar of SSIS tasks, and a small change, such as an alteration to the network topology, means that they all need to be altered with the correct connection details. Perhaps you should consider creating design patterns for all the standard components of integration tasks in BIML, and generating the SSIS packages from these? Amarendra walks you through the process.
2017-08-04
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2017-08-03
15,834 reads
Ingest data from a web page into SQL Server 2017 using R
Siddharth Mehta shows that R libraries can be used from T-SQL to ingest data from the web into SQL Server.
2017-08-03
5,113 reads
Performance Myths : Oversizing string columns
Aaron Bertrand shows a quick demo that illustrates why you should be very careful about oversizing varchar / nvarchar columns.
2017-08-02
8,420 reads
Azure DWH part 13: Load data using Data Platform Studio
In this article we will load data from a SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2017-08-01
773 reads
How to Generate a Restore Script
There are multiple ways to accomplish a database restore. But if you wanted to restore a database from a script how might you accomplish that task quickly and accurately?
2017-08-01
4,704 reads
Simple Talk is hiring a full-time editor
Have experience editing and writing technical content? Redgate is currently hiring for their educational publishing site, Simple Talk. They're open to accepting remote workers, so if you're interested, there's no excuse not to go ahead and apply!
2017-08-01 (first published: 2017-07-28)
4,722 reads
Query Store and Parameterization Problems
The query store gives us a novel way of identifying those queries that are causing performance problems when they are parameterized by SQL Server for reuse. Although it is relatively simple to ensure that certain troublesome queries avoid the problem, it is laborious to identify these queries. Additionally, Query Store gives us the means to fix the problem for groups of queries by means of plan guides without changing the DDL at all. Dennes Torres explains the details
2017-07-31
5,234 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
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As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
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How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
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Forums
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