Data Warehousing Explained
Why Warehouse
Data warehousing is the act of transforming application database into a format more suited for reporting and offloading it...
2017-05-14
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Gavin Draper
Using The SQL Server Merge Statement
Note : Since publishing this I’ve been notified that there are a number of outstanding issues with the SQL Server merge...
2017-05-08
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SQL Server Dynamic Pivot
Often when trying to pivot data you wont know what the possible values that you need to pivot on, in...
2017-05-07
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Using JSON In SQL Server 2016
The new JSON bits in SQL Server 2016 give you the ability to pull stuff out of JSON and to...
2017-05-06
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C#7 Show Me The New Stuff!
I’m going to walk through an example that we can build up and improve with a number of the new...
2017-05-05
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SQL Server Pivot and Unpivot Explained
The Pivot and Unpivot features in SQL Server are I find quite underused. For a long time I got by...
2017-05-04
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Why CROSS APPLY is AWESOME
CROSS APPLY was introducted as part of TSQL in SQL Server 2005. Origionally it was created as a way to...
2017-05-03
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Switch Your Site To HTTPS Using CloudFlare
SSL All the Things
Browsers are starting to highlight sites without SSL as insecure in a bid to push everyone to...
2017-04-26
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SQL 2016 Temporal Tables By Example
Brief Description
Temporal tables allow automated change tracking of a table directly in to a history table which can be queried...
2016-04-15
80 reads
.Net CLI Cross Platform Awesomeness
.Net CLI is the new tooling that sits in front of .Net Core, allowing you to create and run projects...
2016-02-07
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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