Idle Connection Resiliency
Describes the idle connection resiliency feature, which allows ODBC and SqlClient data access applications to maintain their connections to SQL Server 2014 or an Azure SQL Database.
2018-06-18
2,632 reads
Additional Articles
How to Tell If Your SQL Server Has Too Much Memory
Brent shows what Perfmon counter to watch after your SQL Server restarts.
2018-06-15
5,646 reads
Using Regular Expressions With T-SQL: From Beginner To Advanced
Its possible to use some comparable expressions to a full regular expression library for matching certain patterns with T-SQL using the like operator. This tutorial uses these expressions for filtering price phrases involving alphabetic, numeric, and special characters
2018-06-14
4,713 reads
Data Governance, DevOps, and Delivery
Data governance must be included in DevOps practices. William Brewer explains how to define business policies and standards to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and bring data governance to all aspects of continuous delivery.
2018-06-13
2,693 reads
Indexes That Have Not Been Used but Are Being Updated
Greg Larsen talks about how indexes that are not being used are costing you valuable resources and causing your update statements to run longer.
2018-06-12
3,648 reads
Using Power BI in a Hybrid Environment
This paper describes best practices for security, networking, and component architecture for building a hybrid business intelligence (BI) environment by using a combination of Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and on-premises data sources. Many organizations are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud computing such as lower capital expenditures and increased agility, while still maintaining data in on-premises data stores.
2018-06-12
2,710 reads
Converting a Database to In-Memory OLTP
In-Memory OLTP was introduced with SQL Server 2014 as a way to improve transaction performance. There are several scenarios that are not supported, such as some data types, and Darko Martinovic describes the issues and provides workarounds. He also has provided a tool to assist in migrating disk-based tables to In-Memory optimized tables.
2018-06-11
3,363 reads
How to Create Deadlocks and Troubleshoot Them
Watch in awe and wonder as Brent Ozar creates a deadlock, then uses sp_BlitzLock after the fact to show you which queries and tables were involved.
2018-06-08
4,429 reads
Script triggers from any database in SQL Server
In this tip Aaron Bertrand looks at how to generate scripts for triggers using simple T-SQL statements. This tip shows how to easily build scripts for disabling, enabling, dropping and creating.
2018-06-07
3,640 reads
Power BI – Part 1: Introduction
Power BI has been available for a number of years, but new functionality is added regularly. In this new series from Robert Sheldon, you will learn about the latest developments or get started with Power BI if you are new to it. Robert provides an overview of Power BI, the services and tools available in this article.
2018-06-06
4,118 reads
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers