Can you use SQL Server to extrapolate out trends from your data? Lots of companies would have you buy a BI solution instead, but new author Mark Wojciechowicz brings us a great example of how you could forecast something in T-SQL.
2017-05-19 (first published: 2010-02-09)
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It’s been a while since SQL Cruise has been in Alaska, but come August 12 2017 we are returning in a big way for our 13th event since our founding in 2010, bringing one of the most sought-after minds in Microsoft SQL Server for a week of instruction, conversation, and insight: Bob Ward. The SQL […]
2017-05-19
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Visual Studio Code is rapidly gaining in popularity, but is it all it could be, or is there room for improvement? Redgate is embarking on some research to better understand how you are using this lightweight editor, and where it can be improved. Have your say by filling in this short survey!
2017-05-19 (first published: 2017-05-17)
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Manvendra Singh explains how to install SQL Server Agent on an Ubuntu server, so that you can create SQL Server Agent Jobs to schedule repetitive tasks.
2017-05-19
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At the end of 2016, Redgate interviewed Bob Walker, a Lead Application Developer, to find out how he went about setting up automated database deployments using Redgate tools, and also to find out what lessons he learned during the process - the highlights make for interesting reading. Read the interview write-up.
2017-05-18
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It is ironic that the users of database application need to rely on the very technologists that created the system to then devise and run their acceptance tests. Surely someone has devised a test system for databases that is simple enough for ordinary tech-savvy people to use and for them to create the tests? Yes they have. Fitnesse DbFit is a mature product that can, and does, test SQL Server databases, and Nat Sundar explains how to set it up and do it.
2017-05-18
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Paul White takes you on an optimizer journey, exploring how SQL Server comes up with cardinality estimates for COUNT queries.
2017-05-17
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SSRS Password error while changing credentials
2017-05-16
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Dynamic Data Masking is a good way of rendering data unreadable for such purposes as user-acceptance testing, or demonstrating an application. It doesn't encrypt the data, and a knowledgeable SQL user can defeat it. However it provides a simple way to administer from the database what data the various users of a database application can and can not see, making it a useful tool for the developer.
2017-05-16
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In this new article, we will learn how to access to our Azure DWH tables using C#.
2017-05-15
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By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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