This article describes a lightweight copy-and-generate approach for making a sanitized version of a production database available to development teams with SQL Clone and SQL Data Generator.
2017-05-08
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When there are several SSIS projects with packages in a SQL Server Database or Data Warehouse development, automated deployments as part of Continuous Integration can get tricky. Nat Sundar describes how he created a Deployment script that is intended to provision a Data Warehouse for System Integrated testing (SIT).
2017-05-08
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In this chapter, we will show how to create a Machine Learning experiment from our Azure SQL Warehouse.
2017-05-05 (first published: 2016-06-14)
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Have trouble keeping track of your SQLServer estate? Redgate Foundry are currently researching the area - here's what they've been up to, and how you might be able to help.
2017-05-05
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Managed Disks have simplified way that Azure storage interacts with the users' virtual machines, thanks to the way that it eliminates the need to deal with the Storage Account. It is now easier to add new disks to a virtual machine, either in PowerShell or via the portal. The Storage Spaces feature in Windows Server can be used to aggregate disks together and obtain higher levels of performance. Joshua Feierman explains how to do it all.
2017-05-05
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There may be a time when you want to move a table from one file group to another. It's easy if it contains a clustered index. Read on to learn more.
2017-05-04
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What are all of the JOIN options in SQL Server? What is the significance of each of the options? How does the syntax work? Jeremy Kadlec answers these questions and more.
2017-05-04
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See how Minionware Backup gives you the ability to customize backup files and locations.
2017-05-03
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Using very few megabytes and taking very little time, SQL Clone can quickly creates multiple copies of very large databases. How? It might sound like magic, but it's not; in this blog post Redgate developer Chris Hurley goes into the details of how the technology works.
2017-05-03
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Load balancing in Azure has more importance for the DBA, because it is essential for Windows Server Failover Clustering in Azure, whether it is for AlwaysOn Availaiblity Groups, Failover Clustered Instances, or any other highly-available solution. Azure load balancing works out the location of the availability group, and routes traffic there. The load balancer detects a failure, and routes traffic to the new primary replica. Joshua Feierman gives an overview of what is required.
2017-05-02
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By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
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Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
By Steve Jones
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I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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