Many organizations have known the fact that data have been evolved from the by-product of corporate applications into a strategic asset [1]. Like other corporate assets, the asset requires specialized skills to maintain and analyze. With modern data analytic tools, for example Python, R, SAS and SPSS, IT professionals can build models and uncover previous unknown knowledge from the ocean of data.
2020-01-27
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Database table constraints such as foreign keys and default values ensure reliability of the data. In this article, Phil Factor demonstrates a way to find any data that breaks the build so it can be corrected before deployment.
2020-01-27
Splunk is a search engine for collecting and analyzing all sorts of "machine data", including log data and metrics for SQL Server. SQL Monitor gives you the detailed diagnostic view of all your SQL Server instances, and databases. If you have Splunk to monitor your applications and server infrastructure, and SQL Monitor to help you understand the behavior of a complex database system such as SQL Server, then you have a powerful and capable monitoring tool set.
2020-01-24
In this tip we look at a way to minimize the length of blocking using SQL Server lock timeout.
2020-01-24
Comments are helpful when programming in any language, and PowerShell is no exception. In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates how to use comments to document code and to add prerequisites in PowerShell with #Requires.
2020-01-23
Concurrency | T-SQL | Code Samples - In this tip we look at a way to minimize the length of blocking using SQL Server lock timeout.
2020-01-23
Protecting data is not easy, but it is critical. In this article, David Poole discusses database security and the behaviors needed to build secure systems.
2020-01-22
If you avoid illegal characters and reserved words in your identifiers, you'll rarely need delimiters. Sadly, SSMS applies square bracket delimiters indiscriminately, as a precaution, when generating build scripts. Phil Factor provides a handy function that adds quoted delimiters only where they are really needed and then sits back and lets SQL Prompt strip out any extraneous square brackets, in a flash.
2020-01-22
We’ve heard from users that they really care about static data and were missing the feature in the SQL Change Automation SSMS plugin. In v4.1, we’ve added support for the tracking of static data tables to the SSMS extension, alongside existing support in the VS extension. Maya Malakova has written a technical summary showing how to use this feature. Learn more about the release here.
2020-01-21
In this tip we will go through each type of index that is available in SQL Server and give an overview as well as advice on which index types fit each particular use case.
2020-01-21
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