SQL Server 2014 and Windows Azure Blob Storage Service: Better Together
This technical article will cover in depth SQL Server 2014 Data Files on Azure Blob storage service, starting from step-by-step configuration
2015-10-13
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This technical article will cover in depth SQL Server 2014 Data Files on Azure Blob storage service, starting from step-by-step configuration
2015-10-13
2,489 reads
I have heard the new Power BI Desktop can screen scrape data off websites; how does that process work?
2015-10-12
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Observing an index seek utilizing a composite index within SQL execution plan might be more than meets the eye – you should look again.
2015-10-09 (first published: 2013-08-12)
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Measures such as using special characters and numbers within a password are of little use to security if passwords are then stored in an insecure way. Sergey Gigoyan explains how to encrypt and store passwords in a SQL Server database.
2015-10-09
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There is plenty that is novel and perhaps foreign to a new R user, but it's no reason to abandon your hard-earned SQL skills! In this article, Casimir Saternos explains that not only can you easily retrieve data from SQL Sources for analysis and visualisation in R, but you can also use SQL to create, clean, filter, query and otherwise manipulate datasets within R, using a wide choice of relational databases.
2015-10-08
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In this follow-up to a previous article, Aaron Bertrand reiterates that – while you should never just accept the defaults – you really should think about which options are most applicable to your scenario.
2015-10-07
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Minion Enterprise can help you with security management in an enterprise.
2015-10-06
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Automatic UNDO Management isn't voodoo or black magic, although it can seem that way when it isn't clearly understood. How does Oracle decide how many UNDO segments to create at startup, and what is the underlying goal of the process? David Fitzjarrell investigates.
2015-10-06
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If we only use version control as a way to back up our code then it is pure overhead but actually there are real benefits. We can use source control to write better, cleaner, more readable code.
2015-10-05
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The Power Query Formula Language (PQFL) is a functional language that drives the Power BI transformations, and allows you to create mashup queries from scratch. In this article, Rob Sheldon demonstrates how to use it in Power BI Desktop to extract data from its source, filter rows, specify the columns, clean the data, and create visualisations.
2015-10-05
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I try to run this code on SQL Server 2022. All the objects exist in the database.
CREATE OR ALTER VIEW OrderShipping AS SELECT cl.CityNameID, cl.CityName, o.OrderID, o.Customer, o.OrderDate, o.CustomerID, o.cityId FROM dbo.CityList AS cl INNER JOIN dbo.[Order] AS o ON o.cityId = cl.CityNameID GO CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION GetShipCityForOrder ( @OrderID INT ) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @city VARCHAR(50); SELECT @city = os.CityName FROM dbo.OrderShipping AS os WHERE os.OrderID = @OrderID; RETURN @city; END; goWhat is the result? See possible answers