Do you hate when someone wakes you up in the middle of the night and tells you that some query is slower and you need to investigate it? With SQL Server 2017 you might easily do this, or even let SQL Server do this job for you.
2017-08-08
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In order to be able to deliver database changes more quickly, there are several tasks that must be automated. It can be a daunting job to ensure that the whole team has the latest database build when there is a proliferation of copies, and the database is big. Phil illustrates a solution by taking a set of Redgate tools to show how they can be used together, via PowerShell, to build a database from object-level source, stock it with data, document it, and then provision any number of test and development servers with the database build, taking care to save any DDL changes to the existing copies of the database.
2017-08-08
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Example of Using Super Keys to Enforce Database Constraints, instead of procedural code
2017-08-07
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Serget Gigoyan is back with another set of 5 common SSMS tips.
2017-08-07
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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)
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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
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Siddharth Mehta shows that R libraries can be used from T-SQL to ingest data from the web into SQL Server.
2017-08-03
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Aaron Bertrand shows a quick demo that illustrates why you should be very careful about oversizing varchar / nvarchar columns.
2017-08-02
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In this article we will load data from a SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2017-08-01
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