With the idea of a generic Dacpac defined by international standard, comes the potential for a Visual Studio developer to use SSDT to create a generic database model to a SQL-92 compliant standard that can then be deployed to any one of the major RDBMSs. The same database model would be deployable to Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server, for example. Professor Hugh Bin-Haad explains the reasoning and technology behind this.
2015-04-01
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Earlier today, a revolutionary product was released: a universal data integration utility.
2015-04-01
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I became a SQL guy back in 1998 because the company that hired me used SQL Server. It’s been a good ride and it’s paid the bills, but after 15 years or so it’s time to do something different.
2015-04-01
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This articles describes two ways to shred Unicode Japanese character from xls files into SQL Server table using SSIS
2015-03-31
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Arshad Ali demonstrates how you can use the command line interface to tune SQL queries and how you can use SQL Server Profiler to capture the workload for tuning with Database Engine Tuning Advisor.
2015-03-31
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This alert is raised when the number of hash warnings events in the last hour goes above a specified threshold. A hash warning event means that part of the data processed for a hash operation was written to tempdb during query execution, which can degrade SQL Server Performance.
2015-03-31
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In which Phil Factor illustrates in TSQL how it is possible to use foreign key constraints to enforce data rules, and illustrates some surprising consequences of using cascading.
2015-03-30
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When you're developing database applications, it pays to check for index scans in the SQL Server query plan cache. Once you've identified the queries, what next? Dennes Torres gives some preliminary guidelines on how to find out why these index scans are being chosen for these queries and how to make the queries run faster and more efficiently.
2015-03-30
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I had an update statement that took 3 minutes to run after this code change it took 6 seconds.
2015-03-27 (first published: 2014-05-08)
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In this article, Robin Shahan talks about security and how to control access to containers and blobs using shared access signatures (SAS) and stored access policies.
2015-03-27
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In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?
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