2016-03-14
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Articles
Releasing Databases in VSTS with Redgate SQL CI and Octopus Deploy
You can still do Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) workflows in the hosted version of Team foundation Server (TFS) in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) . If you are doing your database development in SSMS, you can use a mix of tools to set up the functionality in VSTS. Jason Crease demonstrates how to build and deploy a simple database into the test environment using SQL CI, SQL Source Control, Octopus Deploy, tSQLt, SQL Cop and SQL Release, all with the minimum of hassle and effort.
2016-03-14
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2016-03-11 (first published: 2015-01-08)
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Five Online Database Modelling Services
To design, or redesign, a database of any complexity, the Entity-Relationship modelling tool becomes essential. The specialized tools that have dominated the industry for a long while are expensive and are installed on a workstation. Now that browser technology has progressed so rapidly, the online database modelling tools have become viable and are starting to attract the attention of database designers. Are they good enough to use now? Robert Sheldon finds out.
2016-03-11
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Find a String in a String in SQL Server
Learn how you can find data in a string and extract it, no matter where it's located.
2016-03-10
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Getting Started with JSON Support in SQL Server 2016 – Part 2
Arshad Ali talks about using OPENJSON to read and parse JSON data and looks at how to convert it to tabular format.
2016-03-10
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Disabling SQL Server Optimizer Rules with QUERYRULEOFF
Daniel Farina shows how to disable the optimizer rules by using QUERYRULEOFF, an undocumented hint.
2016-03-09
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SQL GROUP BY Basics
It sometimes pays to go back and look at what you think you already know about SQL. Joe Celko gives a quick revision of the GROUP BY and HAVING clauses in SQL that are the bedrock of any sort of analysis of data, and comes up with some nuggets that may not be entirely obvious.
2016-03-08
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Deep Dive into Changing Database Collation
Changing Database Collation Through Primary keys, Foreign Keys, Default and Check Constraints and more.
2016-03-07
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Microsoft Data Driven SQL Server Event - Watch Live
Hear from Microsoft engineering experts on the latest features in SQL Server 2016 before the live event. Learn about new business intelligence capabilities like built-in mobile BI, fully integrated advanced analytics, security innovations, mission critical in-memory performance and new hybrid cloud solutions.
2016-03-07
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Blogs
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