How to implement a T-SQL code formatting standard using SQL Prompt
Louis Davidson shows how to save a defined SQL formatting style as a shareable template that you can quickly share with your coworkers.
2017-05-02
5,605 reads
Articles
Introducing a DevOps Workgroup to Farm Credit Services of America
If you are introducing DevOps workflows into a large organization, you’ll need to plan carefully and prioritize tasks, adapt, maintain a thick skin, communicate constantly, and ensure that all...
2017-05-01
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What the heck is a DTU?
Andy Mallon explains DTUs (Database Transaction Units) and the differences you might see between the documentation and practical usage.
2017-05-01
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Display SSIS package version on the Control Flow design surface
In this article I will show a simple trick to display version information on the Control Flow surface, so we immediately see which version and build we are modifying.
2017-04-28 (first published: 2015-08-04)
4,548 reads
Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Part 3
Microsoft introduced Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a new enterprise-class, elastic petabyte-scale, data warehouse service that can scale according to organizational demands in just few minutes. In this article, Arshad Ali discusses the different types of tables you can create in SQL Data Warehouse, how they impact performance and the best practices around them.
2017-04-28
3,633 reads
Doing Fuzzy Searches in SQL Server
A series of arguments with developers who insist that fuzzy searches or spell-checking be done within the application rather then a relational database inspired Phil Factor to show how it is done. When the database must find relevant material from search terms entered by users, the database must learn to expect, and deal with, both expected and unexpected.
2017-04-27
7,260 reads
How to setup a tabular data model in SSAS Azure
Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) on Azure late last year. Siddharth Mehta walks through how to quickly set up a tabular data model in SSAS Azure.
2017-04-26
2,859 reads
Building Dynamic React Apps with SQL Server Data
This article demonstrates using React and the CData API Server to build dynamic Web pages using SQL Server data.
2017-04-24
52,281 reads
6 shades of masking your data
The Redgate Foundry team have been researching data masking, and have found that generally speaking there's six common approaches. In this blog post, Toby Smyth runs through all six.
2017-04-24
3,252 reads
The right way to approach a legacy code base
Andrea Angella shares what he learned from attending Michael Feather's workshop on working effectively with legacy code.
2017-04-20
4,251 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
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