Five SQL Server experts have brought their collective years of experience working with and maintaining SQL Server data systems to identify the four strategies required for a successful estate-wide SQL Server monitoring solution.
2019-08-26
So far in this series, Andy Brown of Wise Owl Training has shed light on functions like CALCULATE, VALUES and FILTER, but it’s only when you understand the idiosyncrasies of the EARLIER function that you can claim to have genuinely cracked DAX. This article gives four examples of the use of this peculiar function, in the process explaining why it has such a misleading name. Using the EARLIER function properly all boils down (as is so often the case with DAX) to understanding row and filter context. The article also shows how to use the RANKX function to sort data into your required order.
2019-08-26
Poor data quality for any reason is very expensive in terms of man hours and decision making to all organizations. There are a number of ways to address the issue with both SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI.
2019-08-23
Tony Davis describes the features and capabilities of SQL Monitor that allow it to scale smoothly to monitor a growing estate of servers and databases, while still providing a single, simple dashboard that gives the team all of the essential SQL Server metrics and alerts, establishes baselines, and detects trends in behavior.
2019-08-23
Introducing the new “Teams” feature in SQL Clone. Define access to instances, images and clones for specific teams and enable devs to self-service, refreshing environments on demand.
2019-08-22
Joe Celko explains why questions requiring yes or no answers are more complicated than you might realize in both spoken language and computing.
2019-08-22
Greta Rudžioniene provides a step-by-step guide to running SQL code analysis checks, as defined by SQL Code Guard, in SonarQube, a general-purpose code quality tool that can perform continuous code analysis on a variety of languages.
2019-08-21
The State of SQL Server Monitoring report found that monitoring is key to managing large estates, and as estates continue to grow the need for a monitoring solution that is scalable is increasing. German IT Service Provider Fiducia & GAD IT AG implemented Redgate’s SQL Monitor to better manage the performance of its growing SQL Server estate.
2019-08-20
Once you understand the SCA data objects, it can give you a certain glow of to discover, suddenly, that SCA can do some complicated and time-consuming tasks with just a few lines of code. Phil Factor demonstrates how to get the most of SCA's Release object.
2019-08-19
Phil Factor delves into some of SQL Change Automation's data objects, or artifacts, covering the DatabaseConnection, iProject and iBuildArtifact objects. He explains the useful information they contain and how to use them in a PowerShell-automated database delivery process.
2019-08-16
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