Why Not Just Create Statistics?

Erik Darling looks at why you should be more interested in up to date statistics, and also why statistics outside of indexes aren’t really the most helpful thing.

Byte Me: Let's Cook

Simple T-SQL Code Comparison With PowerShell

Tim Smith shows how you can use PowerShell to automate a simple comparison of objects such as stored procedures, views, and fucntions.

SQL Server 2016: built-in JSON Use case scenarios

There's built-in JSON support starting with SQL Server 2016. Does that mean we should all ditch XML and start using JSON? It depends mostly on the target of your data output processing.

Crossing the Site Domain with JavaScript

Browsers try to prevent a range of malicious attacks by preventing content being accessed by a web page from a different domain to the one that the page was fetched from. If you have a legitimate need to do this, it is a bad idea to disable this method of defence: Instead, there are more legitimate and safer ways of performing cross-domain JavaScript calls such as JSONP or Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, as Dino explains.

Free eBook: SQL Server Hardware

SQL Server Hardware will provide the fundamental knowledge and resources you need to make intelligent decisions about choice, and optimal installation and configuration, of SQL Server hardware, operating system and the SQL Server RDBMS.

Bash for ETL pre-processing

People were doing ETL long before ETL packages were invented. Some of those facilities still have worth today

Paying Attention to Estimates

Aaron Bertrand follows up on a recent post about DATEFROMPARTS() with a deeper look into the estimates and potential mitigation techniques.

Biml Academy 2 - Importing, Staging, and Loading Data

Next week are 5 more lessons on working iwth Bilm. Each day, Aug 15-19, at 1:00pm EDT.

SQL Server Stored Procedure to Compress Non Partitioned Tables

My SQL Server database has some very big tables that can be compressed. The tables are simple, non-partitioned tables and I want a quick tool to compress them. I