Unique indexes are the database developer's responsibility. Non-unique indexes can be more easily maintained directly on the production database by an automated process.
2016-05-06 (first published: 2014-06-26)
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Scott Murray takes a look at what count function variations and related functions are available in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
2016-05-06
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ASP.NET Core is a fascinating platform with many good ideas, but in its present form (RC1)there is a culture shock for experienced ASP.NET developers to experience the effort involved in porting a realistic application. There is an obvious advantage on being able to host an application on any web server, but is this enough to compensate for losing the convenience of an integrated pipeline?
2016-05-05
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In earlier chapters, we talked about the Microsoft Data Mining enemies. We will talk now about Microsoft Azure Machine Learning.
2016-05-04
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Aaron Bertrand follows up on a recent post about the performance of STRING_SPLIT() with a few additional reader-motivated tests.
2016-05-04
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Ability to enable Instant File Initialization during the installation of SQL Server 2016.
2016-05-03
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In some applications having hard coded SQL statements is not appealing, because of the dynamic nature of the queries being issued against the database server. Because of this sometimes there is a need to dynamically create a SQL statement on the fly and then run that command. This can be done quite simply from the application perspective where the statement is built on the fly whether you are using ASP.NET, ColdFusion or any other programming language. But how do you do this from within a SQL Server stored procedure?
2016-05-03
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2016-05-02
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Your SQL Agent Jobs may be silently failing when using Linked Servers.
2016-05-02
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This week Steve Jones recommends installing Cumulative Updates. If you can test them.
2016-05-02
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By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
By Steve Jones
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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