Dealing with High Concurrency with Table Hints
Systems with a large number of requests on a critical database table are prone to blocking and slowness. We take a look at getting things done using T-SQL table hints.
2017-06-20
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Joao Osorio
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Data Lifecycle Management using SQL Server
With the data proliferation issues, a well-defined lifecycle for data retention is a growing demand.
2016-11-10
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SQL Server 2016: built-in JSON Use case scenarios
There's built-in JSON support starting with SQL Server 2016. Does that mean we should all ditch XML and start using JSON? It depends mostly on the target of your data output processing.
2016-08-16
5,269 reads
Continuous Integration with Microsoft SQL Server
What about database development? In most projects, developers aren’t focused on database development and for proper CI, the database version should keep neck to neck with the application builds.
2016-06-08
4,216 reads
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