Integrating big data appliance solutions into a data warehouse requires preparation and forethought. DBAs and business data consumers must work together both to address the implementation issues above and to meet the needs of multiple business data consumers. Lockwood Lyon discusses the topic.
2015-12-11
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If it's deemed important to test application code as part of a CI process, the same must apply to the database. In this blog post, Jason Crease shows how to create a smooth process where you can build and deploy databases alongside your application code from within Jenkins with the SQL CI plugin.
2015-12-10
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This article details SMKs, DMKs and certificates in SQL Server as they relate to Transparent Data Encryption and Encrypted Backups.
2015-12-09
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Dan Holmes shows how you can create statistics exactly the way you want within the bounds of the 200 steps available.
2015-12-09
2,745 reads
Leveraging snapshots across multiple databases simultaneously to allow for quick rollback in case of a problem deploying code
2015-12-08
2,154 reads
Jovan Popovic talks about transforming complex relational structures into simpler tables using JSON format.
2015-12-08
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Phil Factor's newest SQL expression calculates when all the feasts and saints days are, giving you plenty of potential causes for celebration.
2015-12-07
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This tool is a helper for your daily work to copy easily databases between Servers/instances and do all the necessary stuff for you.
2015-12-04 (first published: 2014-09-23)
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SQL Server's Query Store, introduced in SQL Server 2016, helps to troubleshoot query performance by capturing a range of information about query usage, CPU, memory consumption, I/O and execution time, and retaining every Execution Plan for analysis. Much of this information is available through queries. It looks set to be the most significant enhancement of SQL Server 2016 - Enrico van de Laar explores.
2015-12-04
4,278 reads
Power BI designer is based upon the Power Query formula language informally known as "M". Unfortunately, the advanced editor inside the Power BI designer does not support syntax highlighting, meaning it can be easy to make mistakes. Matt Mason shows how you can extend the Notepad++ editor to support this feature.
2015-12-03
3,200 reads
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
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Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
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CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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