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Application Containers For Cloud Computing

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Containers

Containers promise to make applications more portable and efficient. The technology, originally based on Linux's cgroups, provides a way of running several applications as modular, platform-agnostic packages in isolation on the same server. Docker's open-source approach to containers has dominated the market, and Microsoft is producing its own equivalent Windows system. What next? Will Containers replace VMS? Robert Sheldon investigates.

2015-02-18

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Automate SQL Server Express Backups and Purge Old Backups

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SQL Server Express

SQL Server Express Edition does not include SQL Server Agent in order to schedule the SQL Server database backups. Here's how to automate the backups for SQL Server Express Edition and make sure the old backup files are deleted.

2015-02-17

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SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Tempdb Allocation Contention

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SQL Monitor

If your code uses temporary tables, variable tables or dynamic cursors, this metric can help identify whether you have contention on tempdb allocation. Tempdb is shared by all databases and is used for many operations in a SQL Server instance, so it is common for tempdb to cause performance problems.

2015-02-17

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Managing Test Data as a Database CI Component - Part 1

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Test Data

Constructing a test environment for your databases can be a difficult task at the best of times. Once you’ve actually acquired the hardware needed and architected the environment, you still have to arrange and securely transport the data. And with the rising demand for fast feedback and continuously integrated processes, having all of this automated and operating at speed is a challenge all of its own.

2015-02-16

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Cascaded Parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services

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You have a reporting requirement where a user has two or more parameters for a single report, but the values for one parameter depend on the values chosen in a previous parameter. Ghanesh Prasad explains how to create cascaded parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services to solve this issue.

2015-02-13

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SQL Saturday #371 - Tampa, FL

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SQL Saturdau is coming to Tampa on February 28, 2015. This is a free training event for those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Register while space is available.

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2015-02-13

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Bowled Over by SQL Window Functions

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What better way to learn how to construct complex CHECK CONSTRAINTs, use the SQL 2012 window frame capability of the OVER clause and LEAD analytic function, as well as how to pivot rows into columns using a crosstab query? Create the SQL code to score Ten-pin Bowling, of course. Dwain Camps explains the how, what and why.

2015-02-12

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Using SQL Server's GROUP BY clause to Summarize your Data

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GROUP BY

SQL Server’s GROUP BY clause provides you a way to aggregate your SQL Server data and to group data on a single column, multiple columns, or even expressions. Greg Larsen discusses how to use the GROUP by clause to summarize your data.

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2015-02-11

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Questions About T-SQL Control-of-Flow Language You Were Too Shy to Ask

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Surely, we all know how T-SQL Control-of-flow language works? In fact it is surprisingly easy to get caught out. What, for example, do the BREAK, RETURN and CONTINUE keywords do in their various contexts? Robert Sheldon has the answers to this and other questions.

2015-02-10

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Advice for Learning T-SQL SELECT Statement Step By Step

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In this tip, Dallas Snider shares his experience with how someone can start learning T-SQL from the beginning with no prior knowledge.

2015-02-09

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Application Containers For Cloud Computing

Automate SQL Server Express Backups and Purge Old Backups

SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Tempdb Allocation Contention

Managing Test Data as a Database CI Component - Part 1

Cascaded Parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Saturday #371 - Tampa, FL

Bowled Over by SQL Window Functions

Using SQL Server's GROUP BY clause to Summarize your Data

Questions About T-SQL Control-of-Flow Language You Were Too Shy to Ask

Advice for Learning T-SQL SELECT Statement Step By Step

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