Arshad Ali discusses how to use CTE and the ranking function to access or query data from previous or subsequent rows. He also shows you how to leverage the LEAD and LAG analytics functions to achieve the same result without writing a self-join query using CTE and ranking function
2014-12-10
8,382 reads
Matthew Skelton proposes a way to enable database continuous delivery that isn’t as outlandish as it first appears. What can Conways Law and Microservices tell us about the future of databases and DBAs? Matthew shows us a glimpse.
2014-12-09
7,338 reads
Tibor Nagy explains how to find the root cause of SSL encryption configuration problems in Microsoft SQL Server.
2014-12-08
6,634 reads
An enhancement to a Phil Factor puzzle gives you a chance to play scrabble in T-SQL.
2014-12-05
8,421 reads
How can you get a list of columns that have changed within a trigger in T-SQL? How can you see what bits are set within a varbinary or integer? How would you pass a bitmap parameter to a system stored procedure? Phil Factor has answers.
2014-12-03
11,287 reads
When faced with a complex business application, Dwain's team chose to encapsulate and implement most of an application’s business logic in SQL Server, using an interface made up of stored procedures. Here's how they did it.
2014-12-01
9,228 reads
As you may know, SQL Server In-Memory OLTP introduced in SQL Server 2014 offers great performance improvements for ETL processes. In this tip we cover techniques you need to know about various behaviors of SQL Server In-Memory OLTP depending on the options you select.
2014-11-28
8,026 reads
In this tip, Dallas Snider explains how to interpret the Lift Chart found on the Mining Accuracy tab of a SQL Server 2014 Analysis Services Data Mining structure.
2014-11-27
7,629 reads
The Project Deployment Model introduced in SSIS 2012 speeds up the deployment of database projects in which there may be hundreds of SSIS packages per project. Not only that, but deployments can be configured differently for each environments such as test and staging, and there are now ways of monitoring the status and performance of packages and of versioning the SSIS Catalog.
2014-11-26
7,422 reads
Data and databases are historically ignored or given a low priority within the processes of ALM and DevOps. This situation needs to change and the primary point of the changes is within the database professional part of the team.
2014-11-25
7,702 reads
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