Creating a heat map in Reporting Services
Use custom assemblies to generate a heat map matrix in SQL Server Reporting Services
2015-01-02 (first published: 2012-08-30)
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Articles
Growing Your SQL Server Skills without Breaking the Bank
Learning more about SQL Server doesn't have to cost a small fortune. If you're willing to invest the time, you can learn.
2015-01-02 (first published: 2013-08-05)
14,516 reads
High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Small Businesses
Too often in the past, High Availability and Disaster Recovery have been marketed as expensive choices for businesses with deep pockets. The truth is that, with careful planning, there are sensible and economic solutions for small businesses that can maintain business continuity when disaster strikes.
2015-01-02
9,346 reads
A Beginners Look at Hadoop
Hadoop has been making a lot of noise in the Big Data world. Despite my lack of Linux experience I decided to take the plunge and this is what I found.
2015-01-01 (first published: 2013-06-05)
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Getting Started with HDInsight - Part 3 - Creating an HDInsight Cluster in Microsoft Azure Cloud
In this tip we will look at two different ways of creating an HDInsight Cluster: Creating an HDInsight Cluster through Azure Management Portal, and creating an HDInsight Cluster through Windows Azure PowerShell.
2015-01-01
6,840 reads
SQL Server Data Import System to Alert For Missed Imports
In this tip Tim Smith looks at how to set up a system that allows automatic notification if a process doesn't import new data into SQL Server.
2014-12-31
6,405 reads
Database Build Automation – The First Step to Continuous Integration
So you're keen to take the first steps to the continuous integration of your database. You have to start by getting your database into source control. You can then begin to automate your build processes in order to generate and test a database. By doing this regularly, you'll be much better prepared for the deployment process because you'll have solved integration issues when they happen, and facilitated the broader testing process.
2014-12-30
9,861 reads
SQL Server 2014 Checklist for Performance
A checklist to help optimize the performance of SQL Server
2014-12-29
8,718 reads
SQL Saturday #363 - Nashville, TN
SQL Saturday is coming to Nashville on January 17 for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. There will also be paid-for pre-cons to this event on Thursday and Friday, so register while space is available.
2014-12-29
6,434 reads
SQL Server Reporting Services Add Calculated Series to a Graph
In order to analyze the data in a line chart better, we want to add trendlines to the graph, such as a weighted average. Here's how to add a "calculated series" to a line chart easily in SQL Server Reporting Services.
2014-12-29
7,422 reads
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Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers