'Temporal' tables contain facts that are valid for a period of time. When they are used for financial information they have to be very well constrained to prevent errors getting in and causing incorrect reporting. This makes them more difficult to maintain. Is it possible to have both the stringent constraints and simple CRUD operations? Well, yes. Dwain Camps patiently explains the whole process.
2015-03-26
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SQL Saturday, organized by SQL South West, is coming to Exeter, England on April 25. This is sure to be a special event, and as always, offers a free day of training and networking. Register while space is available.
2015-03-26
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As big data application success stories (and failures) have appeared in the news and technical publications, several myths have emerged about big data. This article explores a few of the more significant myths, and how they may negatively affect your own big data implementation.
2015-03-25
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When effective end dates don't align properly with effective start dates for subsequent rows, what are you to do?
2015-03-24
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Redgate is hosting a 1 day public workshop on April 22, 2015. This workshop will teach you how to put a database in source control, deploy a database from source control, and monitor database changes across development, testing, and production environments.
2015-03-24
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In order to automate the delivery of an application together with its database, you probably just need the extra database tools that allow you to continue with your current source control system and release management system by integrating the database into it. If you're using the Microsoft stack, then Redgate's tools can help with some of the difficult database parts of the process, as Jason Crease demonstrates.
2015-03-24
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Steve Jones runs the SQL Cop tests against the SQLServerCentral database and looks at the results.
2015-03-23
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What are the SQL Server Reporting Services Document Map and Bookmark properties? How can they be used? Do they work for all rendering formats? Scott Murry answers these questions and more.
2015-03-23
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In this article, Robin Shahan explains what Blob Leases are and how to use them, including code samples for calling the different methods available for managing Blob Leases.
2015-03-20
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I had a SQL Server job that kept failing with sqlcmd error and this describes how I resolved it.
2015-03-19
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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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