The SQL Server Luxembourg User Group invites you to join us at our next event, in Microsoft’s new Intelligent Offices, for Tom van Zele’s SQL 2016 presentation. Tom’s road-show session highlights SQL Server 2016’s new features: End-to-end mobile BI, advanced analytics, cloud integration and lots of other new stuff will be addressed.
2016-11-28 (first published: 2016-11-23)
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Tim Radney of SQLskills discusses strategy and some available tools for helping migrate your databases to Azure SQL Database.
2016-11-28
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based, scale-out database capable of processing massive volumes of data, both relational and non-relational. Built on our massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, SQL Data Warehouse can handle your enterprise workload.
2016-11-28
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Koen Verbeeck provides an overview of the new features and capabilities found in SQL Server Reporting Services 2016.
2016-11-25
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As an IT company, it is crucial that you maintain uptime and monitor the performance of various processes. By making database load balancing a key element, you can ensure that your processes and websites run smoothly. Tony Branson explains.
2016-11-24
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Whether you are running an RDBMS, or a Big Data system, it is important to consider your data-partitioning strategy. As the volume of data grows, so it becomes increasingly important to match the way you partition your data to the way it is queried, to allow 'pruning' optimisation. When you have huge imports of data to consider, it can get complicated. Bartosz explains how to get things right; not perfect but wisely.
2016-11-22
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Rob Farley discusses some solutions and gotchas for implementing a custom sort using ORDER BY in T-SQL queries.
2016-11-21
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It is worth getting familiar with Apache Spark because it a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing and you can use you existing SQL skills to get going with analysis of the type and volume of semi-structured data that would be awkward for a relational database. With an IDE such as Databricks you can very quickly get hands-on experience with an interesting technology.
2016-11-18
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Receiving an access denied error message when trying to connect to a remote instance of SSIS from SSMS? Sadequl Hussain provides the solution.
2016-11-17
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Power BI Desktop continues to evolve. There have been many improvements to the reporting side that together make it easier to get from the data to the visualisation as quickly as possible. You can now create line charts that let users drill down into hierarchical data. There are now ways of adding dynamic reference lines to a visualization that provide users with relevant reference points. Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to combine these features to great effect.
2016-11-16
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By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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