SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Winter 2020

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• Brent Ozar Unlimited Blog

Ever wonder what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates, hardware sizes, or numbers of databases? Let’s find out.

2020-03-23

What’s New in SQL Monitor 10?

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• Redgate

• SQL Monitor

New release: SQL Monitor 10
SQL Monitor 10 has landed! You can now integrate SQL Monitor alerts with your ticket management system, so chosen alerts are automatically raised as tickets. New suppression options give you granular control over what alerts are raised during specific times, such as maintenance windows. And, you can now annotate the server activity graph with specific events, so you can measure their impact on your servers.
Discover the new features

2020-03-23

Free Fundamentals of Index Tuning Week: Part 3, Indexing for Joins

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• Brent Ozar Unlimited Blog

Previously we covered Part 1: Indexing for the WHERE Clause, and then we covered ORDER BY. Today, let’s tackle joins.

2020-03-20

Verifying Object Exists and Dropping Object with One Statement

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• Database Journal

For years you probably have been writing code similar to the code below to verify an object exist prior to dropping it.

2020-03-19

Securely Manage Database Credentials Using Visual Studio Manage User Secrets

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• MSSQLTips.com

In this tip we cover how to manage application secrets in a development environment to securely store database credentials.

2020-03-18

Translating a SQL Server Schema into a Cassandra Table: Part II Integrity Constraints

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• SimpleTalk

Complex integrity constraints are more challenging to enforce in Cassandra than they are in a relational database. In this article, Shel Burkow walks through four modelling examples in Cassandra involving constraints.

2020-03-17

Overview of Azure Cache for Redis

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• SimpleTalk

Caching data is one way to improve application performance. In this article, Chandra Kudumla explains a service for caching data found in Azure called Azure Cache for Redis.

2020-03-16

Free Fundamentals of Index Tuning Week: Part 2, Indexing for ORDER BY

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• Brent Ozar Unlimited Blog

I’m teaching my Mastering Index Tuning pre-con at SQLBits and SQL Saturday Iceland, and part of the prerequisites is that you’re already familiar with my How to Think Like the Engine class and my Fundamentals of Index Tuning class. To make that easier, I’m running the Fundamentals of Index Tuning class this week on the blog.

2020-03-13

Enterprise Insights from the 2020 State of Database DevOps report

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• DevOps and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

17% of Enterprise respondents in this year's State of Database DevOps survey reported that DevOps has been adopted across all projects in their organization. This year’s State of Database DevOps report gave us some great insights into the landscape of Database DevOps. Kendra Little walks us through those insights specific to Enterprise organizations.

2020-03-12

Free Fundamentals of Index Tuning Week: Part 1, Indexing for the WHERE Clause

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• Brent Ozar Unlimited Blog

I’m teaching my Mastering Index Tuning pre-con at SQLBits and SQL Saturday Iceland, and part of the prerequisites is that you’re already familiar with my How to Think Like the Engine class and my Fundamentals of Index Tuning class.

2020-03-12