Once you've done a number of SQL code-reviews, you'll be able to identify signs in the code that indicate all might not be well. These 'code smells' are coding styles that, while not bugs, suggest design problems with the code. In this PDF, Phil Factor's put together 119 of those code smells so you can see what to avoid and why.
2014-09-25
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SQL Saturday is coming to the St. Louis University Campus on Oct 11, 2014. SQL Saturday offers a full day of free SQL Server training and networking, some of the speakers at this event include Kathi Kellenberger, Stuart Ainsworth, and Abhishek Srivastava. If you're thinking of attending this event, please register while space is available.
2014-09-25 (first published: 2014-09-05)
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2014-09-24
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Troy Hunt takes a look at a website whose traffic literally increased 60-fold overnight. Interesting stuff happens when scale changes that dramatically, so he decided to share a few things he learned.
2014-09-24
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Retrieving data from Excel, and importing it into SQL Server hasn't the same appeal or glamour as, for example, performing heroics with ill-performing queries. This could be why one hesitates before asking questions about how to do it. Rob Sheldon calms your private doubts and fears by answering those embarrassing questions.
2014-09-23
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SQL Saturday is coming to Sydney, Australia on October 25, 2014. Join us down under for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. Register while space is available.
2014-09-23
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Learning how to tune a system is a bit of science and a bit of an art. Gail Shaw gives some guidelines on when you might want to tune and how to go about it so as not to unnecessarily undertake the effort.
2014-09-22
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In this tip Tim Smith looks at different approaches to stop confidential data from getting into the database.
2014-09-22
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SQL Server MVP Jeff Moden shows us a new very high performance method to convert an "Adjacency List" to “Nested Sets” on a million node hierarchy in less than a minute and 100,000 nodes in just seconds. Not surprisingly, the "steroids" come in a bottle labeled "Tally Table".
2014-09-19 (first published: 2012-11-13)
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Test-Driven Development (TDD) involves the repetition of a very short development cycle that begins with an initially-failing test that defines the required functionality, and ends with producing the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactoring the new code. Michael Sorens continues his introduction to TDD by implementing the first tests and introducing the topics of Test doubles; Test Runners, Constraints and Assertions.
2014-09-19
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