Do you find yourself managing lots of SQL Server instances? If so you might find you are connected to many different instances and have numerous query windows open that are connected to different instances. When you have lots of query windows open, do you sometimes find it confusing to know the instance in which your query window is connected? Color-coding your connections can help you manage complicated setups.
2011-10-19
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On Thursday October 20th, MVP Louis Davidson will discuss the why normalized databases are the most important part of query tuning.
2011-10-19
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In finance, when pricing data isn't available on last day of week, month or year, calculating returns is tricky. This article addresses the issue.
2011-10-18
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2011-10-18 (first published: 2009-12-23)
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Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) was introduced in Windows 2003 to improve Windows scalability to handle heavy network traffic, which is typically the case for SQL Server OLTP workload. This post helps you get the most out of the feature.
2011-10-18
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This challenge invites you to identify the largest sequence of alphabets from a string.
2011-10-17
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Unlike the hierarchical database model, which created a tree structure in which to store data, the network model formed a generalized 'graph' structure that describes the relationships between the nodes. Nowadays, the relational model is used to solve the problems for which the network model was created, but the old 'network' solutions are still being implemented by programmers, even when they are less effective.
2011-10-17
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Do you need to setup a SQL Server development environment in short order? Are you familiar with the options available? Are they all laborious? Are you facing security and data privacy issues? Do you have sufficient storage? Attend this information-packed session to learn about the best ways to build, manage and protect your sandbox development environment.
2011-10-17
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Date manipulation is a common scenario when retrieving or storing data in a SQL Server database. There are several functions that are available and in this tip we look at how to use the DATEADD function.
2011-10-14
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A task was set before our team to find the first Tuesday after 10 days from a specific date. This article shows how we accomplished that.
2011-10-13
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In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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