The Azure Active Directory Graph API enables some interesting scenarios that you can implement in your applications by enabling you to query and manipulate directory objects in Azure AD. In this article, Rick Rainey provides a clear walkthrough of its implementation.
2015-04-03
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Image a situation when you use the SQL Server RAND() T-SQL function as a column in a SELECT statement, and the same value is returned for every row as shown below. In this tip, Dallas Snider explains how you can get differing random values on each row.
2015-04-02
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With the idea of a generic Dacpac defined by international standard, comes the potential for a Visual Studio developer to use SSDT to create a generic database model to a SQL-92 compliant standard that can then be deployed to any one of the major RDBMSs. The same database model would be deployable to Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server, for example. Professor Hugh Bin-Haad explains the reasoning and technology behind this.
2015-04-01
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Arshad Ali demonstrates how you can use the command line interface to tune SQL queries and how you can use SQL Server Profiler to capture the workload for tuning with Database Engine Tuning Advisor.
2015-03-31
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When you're developing database applications, it pays to check for index scans in the SQL Server query plan cache. Once you've identified the queries, what next? Dennes Torres gives some preliminary guidelines on how to find out why these index scans are being chosen for these queries and how to make the queries run faster and more efficiently.
2015-03-30
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In this article, Robin Shahan talks about security and how to control access to containers and blobs using shared access signatures (SAS) and stored access policies.
2015-03-27
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'Temporal' tables contain facts that are valid for a period of time. When they are used for financial information they have to be very well constrained to prevent errors getting in and causing incorrect reporting. This makes them more difficult to maintain. Is it possible to have both the stringent constraints and simple CRUD operations? Well, yes. Dwain Camps patiently explains the whole process.
2015-03-26
9,819 reads
As big data application success stories (and failures) have appeared in the news and technical publications, several myths have emerged about big data. This article explores a few of the more significant myths, and how they may negatively affect your own big data implementation.
2015-03-25
11,670 reads
In order to automate the delivery of an application together with its database, you probably just need the extra database tools that allow you to continue with your current source control system and release management system by integrating the database into it. If you're using the Microsoft stack, then Redgate's tools can help with some of the difficult database parts of the process, as Jason Crease demonstrates.
2015-03-24
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What are the SQL Server Reporting Services Document Map and Bookmark properties? How can they be used? Do they work for all rendering formats? Scott Murry answers these questions and more.
2015-03-23
8,334 reads
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