There are more exciting things in life than unit testing SQL Statements, checking the results, timings, and execution plans. Phil Factor demonstrates a PowerShell-based technique taking the tedium out of testing SQL DML.
2015-11-26
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This SQL Prompt tip shows you how code highlighting makes it easier to find which items match up with each other.
2015-11-25 (first published: 2015-01-26)
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Sandeep Mittal provides an introduction to the COALESCE function and shows how to use it.
2015-11-25
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What are the most popular SQL implementations for Hadoop? How different are they from T-SQL?
2015-11-24
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Transparent Data Encryption offers the ability to encrypt content of the database, its transaction logs, as well as backups while at rest. Encryption and decryption are performed in real-time, at the individual page level, as the database is being written to and read from storage, without necessitating changes to applications accessing their data. Marcin Policht reviews the feature.
2015-11-24
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Before adopting Hadoop into your organisation there are a number of factors to consider. This article highlights some of the key points.
2015-11-23
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In SQL Server, heaps are rightly treated with suspicion. Although there are rare cases where they perform well, they are likely to be the cause of poor performance. If a table is likely to have a large number of changes, then it can become fragmented due to way that space is allocated and forward pointers used. How does one detect this problem? Is it significant? How does one deal with it, if necessary? Neeraj Tripathi explains.
2015-11-23
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There may be some people who enjoy repetitive typing, but Grant Fritchey doesn't. He's always preferred SQL Prompt. The standard snippets suit developers fine but aren't so DBA-oriented, so he set about asking the SQLServerCentral community what they typed in the most, and set about producing a set of DBA snippets with the results.
2015-11-20
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Greg Larson walks through the GUI installation process for SQL Server 2016 and explore these new installation options.
2015-11-19
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Join tSQLt developer, Sebastian Meine, and Steve Jones as they answer your questions and show you how to unit test T-SQL code.
2015-11-19 (first published: 2015-11-10)
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By Chris Yates
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By Steve Jones
Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...
Statistics Collection Interval: Defines the level of granularity for the collected runtime statistic, expressed...
I am using Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (RTM-CU17) (KB5048038) - 16.0.4175.1 (X64) Microsoft Corporation...
i have sqlexpress on rds, is there any way i can get notifacation that...
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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