Soundex - Experiments with SQLCLR Part 2
Constructive feedback on SOUNDEX - Experiments with SQLCLR lead to further experimentation with phonetic algorithms
2015-07-06
3,832 reads
Articles
Getting to know your customers better – cohort analysis and RFM segmentation in R
It often pays to use a tool like R, in conjunction with a relational database, to quickly perform a range of analyses, and graphs, in order to ensure that you're answering the right question, to explore alternative hypotheses, or to provide insight into a problem. Feodor demonstrates how to quickly, and interactively, explore the ways that customers purchase goods and services using cohort analysis.
2015-07-06
2,364 reads
A Quick Tour of the Performance Dashboard Reports
SQL Server Performance Dashboard comprises a set of custom reports that give you nitty gritty details about the performance of your SQL Server instance.
2015-07-03 (first published: 2013-06-11)
18,558 reads
Press Release: Redgate brings expert SQL Server training to London and Seattle
Cambridge, UK, 2 July 2015 – Redgate, the SQL Server and .NET software company, returns to London and Seattle in October with its enormously popular training event, SQL in the City.
2015-07-03
501 reads
Data Load Optimisation using the SSIS Balanced Data Distributor
Optimize SSIS data loads using parallel processing and the Balanced Data Distributor
2015-07-02
7,542 reads
How to Fix a Corrupt MSDB SQL Server Database
Keep reading and you will see that there is another way to rebuild the msdb database without compromising the master database.
2015-07-02
4,724 reads
Survey: Development and Test Databases
Unless development happens directly on the production database, every organization will manage one or more development and test instances. Redgate is doing research to learn how development and test databases are managed within organizations. If you’d like to know more about our plans, or are happy to help us understand the problem, please take part in this 3-page survey.
2015-07-01 (first published: 2015-06-26)
4,682 reads
Trusting Source Control
One of the benefits of a version control system (VCS) is that you can look at the history of code changes. Ed Elliot shows us a situation where that helps a DBA track down a problem.
2015-06-30
5,107 reads
Grant User Access to All SQL Server Databases
Consider a situation when you have a large number of databases on your SQL Server, and you are requested to grant user access to all SQL Server databases. How can you grant access to a user for all databases on a SQL Server instance?
2015-06-30
5,795 reads
Learning about Multiple Tempdb Files
References and links to help you learn how to create multiple tempdb files.
2015-06-29
3,061 reads
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