ASP.NET Core is a fascinating platform with many good ideas, but in its present form (RC1)there is a culture shock for experienced ASP.NET developers to experience the effort involved in porting a realistic application. There is an obvious advantage on being able to host an application on any web server, but is this enough to compensate for losing the convenience of an integrated pipeline?
2016-05-05
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Aaron Bertrand follows up on a recent post about the performance of STRING_SPLIT() with a few additional reader-motivated tests.
2016-05-04
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In some applications having hard coded SQL statements is not appealing, because of the dynamic nature of the queries being issued against the database server. Because of this sometimes there is a need to dynamically create a SQL statement on the fly and then run that command. This can be done quite simply from the application perspective where the statement is built on the fly whether you are using ASP.NET, ColdFusion or any other programming language. But how do you do this from within a SQL Server stored procedure?
2016-05-03
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an obvious first-step towards migrating on-premise organisational data to the cloud. So how do you get started with it? Robert Sheldon provides a simple guide that should provide you with sufficient of the the basics you need to get a SQL Data Warehouse database up and running.
2016-05-02
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Developers who are already familiar with application languages will be baffled by different aspects of PowerShell to the beginner to programming. Laerte recalls his initial struggles with PowerShell and answers those questions he wished he'd found quick answers to.
2016-04-29
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In this article, Marcin Policht describes the basic functionality and implementation steps for Azure SQL Database's Elastic Database jobs.
2016-04-28
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Manvendra Singh explains step by step how to change the server level collation setting for an existing SQL Server instance.
2016-04-27
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In theory, it is easy to determine whether data is equal to, greater than or lesser than a value. Real-world data types can be surprisingly tricky, even for gauging data equivalence. Because SQL cannot remain aloof from any application's data types, you need to be aware of the ways and pitfalls of individual datatypes and how you can test for equality, equivalence, similarity, identity and all that jazz. Joe Celko discusses.
2016-04-26
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Paul Randal continues his knee-jerk performance tuning series, focusing on ways to optimize performance when using temporary tables.
2016-04-25
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You already have a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) sales report that takes parameters for Country and State. Each time the report is run a user selects the specific Country and State for the report. A request has been made to deliver one report via email that includes all of the combinations for each country and state. Daniel Farina shows how to achieve this without modifying the report.
2016-04-22
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