In this tip we look at how you can use SSIS to build a package to add a primary key to an existing table that does not already have a primary key.
2018-12-03
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Books Online says the FAST_FORWARD option has "performance optimizations enabled," but they didn't say if they were good. It turns out they're not.
2018-11-30
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Learn how to prepare for technical meetings including knowing your environment, being calm, business values, solution focus and more.
2018-11-29
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Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are two different approaches, with their own advantages and limitations, for making Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL Server) available and maintaining MS SQL Server databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
2018-11-28
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Regulations may require that you audit exactly who does what in your databases. Robert Sheldon explains how SQL Server can help you meet those requirements with its built-in auditing capabilities.
2018-11-27
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In this tip we look at how you can monitor Azure health to know if there are any issues that may interupt your services running on Azure.
2018-11-26
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In theory, you get better execution plans when SQL Server understands the contents of your tables. In practice, well, it's hit or miss.
2018-11-23
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In this article, Andy Brown shares his knowledge of how to create calculated columns in tables, using Power BI as the host software (all of the formulae shown would work equally well in PowerPivot or SSAS Tabular). This article is designed to be the first in a series of articles which will show you how to master programming in DAX.
2018-11-22
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n this tip we will explain how you can deploy, execute and schedule SSIS packages in the Azure cloud.
2018-11-21
1,712 reads
Greg Larsen offers detailed instructions on how to install SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0.
2018-11-20
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By gbargsley
Recently, I was in a technical interview where the topic of running PowerShell at...
By alevyinroc
I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a...
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
Hi, we put together an extract that runs every 15 minutes against what i...
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If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers