Daniel Calbimonte walks through the steps to creating a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Report from an Analysis Services Tabular Database.
2016-08-03
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The term 'Architecture' seems to imply a plan that you can't easily subsequently deviate from. It's true that, if you abandon software architecture, you end up with a big ball of mud, but maybe the art of software is to make change much easier by planning how to implement each feature, tackling dependency issues, splitting functionality into small discrete components and considering how they should interact with each other.
2016-08-02
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As announced on June 1, 2016, SQL Server 2016 has reached its general availability. This means that you finally have the option to implement some of its new features in the production environment. While we still have to wait for their full support in Azure SQL Database V12, it is likely that their preview stage will be concluded soon. In this article, we will focus on Temporal tables, which is one example of these new features.
2016-08-01
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Simon Liew shows how to execute SQL Server DBCC SHRINKFILE without causing index fragmentation and example conditions that cause fragmentation.
2016-07-29
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React is a front-end user interface library developed by Facebook, originally to help them improve their own site. Since then it has grown into somewhat of a phenomenon, with many active users. In this article, Jon Smith provides multiple examples of how to use React with recently released ASP.NET Core MVC, and the existing ASP.NET MVC5 framework.
2016-07-28
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Greg Larsen expands on his topic of how to modify an existing table to take advantage of the new temporal data feature in SQL Server 2016. In this article he shows you how to create and deleted system-versioned tables and the associated history temporal table.
2016-07-27
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What do you get for your Support & Upgrades package? Read this blog post to learn about the new functionality and improvements Redgate is releasing this year. Find out more.
2016-07-26
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Rob Farley digs deeper into seeks and actual rows read, demonstrating a case where you want a non-sargable expression in the WHERE clause.
2016-07-26
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Information Technology is fast-changing, but the people who work in IT need to have a good chance of a long-term career. That means keeping up to date, not only in their current speciality, but in the wider sphere of the technology they work with. IT managers must make sure that keeping up to date with technology is part of the day to day activity of their people. How should they make sure it happens?
2016-07-25
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The Pull mode of Desired State Configuration (DSC) is more complicated to implement because you need to meticulously manage the MOF files and their naming conventions so as to ensure that you deploy your DSC configurations correctly. In this first article of a two-part series, Nicolas Prigent describes how you can best automate this, and then in a second part on monitoring DSC he describes techniques to help you to use the pull mode as a regular part of your admin work.
2016-07-22
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By Steve Jones
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In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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