Migrating Databases to Azure SQL Database
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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What is Azure SQL Data Warehouse?
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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What's New in SQL Server Reporting Services 2016
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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5 Advantages of Load Balancing For IT Companies
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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Why Would I Ever Need to Partition My Big ‘Raw’ Data?
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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Implementing a custom sort
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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How to Start Big Data with Apache Spark
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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How to resolve SSIS access denied error in SQL Server Management Studio
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
4,199 reads
More Power BI to your Elbow
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
3,166 reads
Can I Use Statistics to Design Indexes?
"I’ve noticed that many indexes in my data warehouse aren’t used frequently. Is there a way to use the automatically generated statistics to make useful indexes?"
Kendra Little answers the question in episode 18 of Dear SQL DBA.
2016-11-15
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