This article includes 10 things that you should consider when migrating to the cloud, with an example using RDS that explains how these are applied to an actual database being created.
2022-10-26
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Learn how you can use Windows Performance Monitor and the PAL to gather metrics from your SQL Server instances.
2022-07-20
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Introduction Relational databases are designed to track changes introduced to a database by data modification language (DML) commands. The fundamental reason for this construct is to ensure that changes are durable and that they can be rolled back reliably. The typical DML command used in SQL are INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE. When INSERT introduces new […]
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-06-10)
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dbForge SQL Studio gives you a few advantages over SSMS. See what Kenneth discovered during his first use of the tool.
2022-04-27
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Learn about high availability in the cloud at a conceptual level.
2022-03-28
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Learn about high availability in the cloud at a conceptual level.
2022-03-28
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Exploring briefly the difference between using Amazon Machine Images running SQL Server and using SQL Server instances on Amazon's Relational Database Service.
2020-09-18 (first published: 2018-04-12)
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In this article, we show how we used Database Snapshots as a rollbackup plan for a database migration from one data centre to another. Database Snapshots proved to be the best route since we sould not afford the time a backup/restore approach would take.
2020-08-28 (first published: 2018-12-11)
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Learn about the impact of locking and blocking in sessions through some demonstrations of different types of actions.
2020-06-11
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There are a number of ways to generate key values in SQL Server tables including the IDENTITY column property, the NEWID() function and more recently, SEQUENCES. The IDENTITY column property is the earliest of these methods. It was introduced very early in the history of SQL Server and it is arguably the simplest approach. Though old, IDENTITY is still maintained in modern versions of SQL Server and is still relevant for simple use cases.
2020-05-21
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We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers