Certifications: What are they good for?
Since Microsoft decided to drop the MCM/MCA program there has been an enormous amount of discussion about the program and...
2013-09-11
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Blog Posts
Data Warehousing Tip: T-SQL Script to Create DEFAULT Constraints by Data Type
There is an ongoing discussion/debate regarding the handling of NULLS in a data warehouse, however, the following article by Michelle...
2013-09-11
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Data Warehousing Tip: T-SQL Script to Create DEFAULT Constraints by Data Type
There is an ongoing discussion/debate regarding the handling of NULLS in a data warehouse, however, the following article by Michelle Poolet summarizes it beautifully – “consider the data warehouse...
2013-09-11
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Data Warehousing Tip: Using T-SQL vs SSIS for Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) Types 1 and 2
Here’s an example of using T-SQL to process a Slowly Changing Type 1&2 Dimension . Note: SSIS has an SCD transform...
2013-09-11
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Data Warehousing Tip: Using T-SQL vs SSIS for Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) Types 1 and 2
Here’s an example of using T-SQL to process a Slowly Changing Type 1&2 Dimension . Note: SSIS has an SCD transform ,however, it does not process large dimensional datasets...
2013-09-11
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Database DoS Whitepaper from Securosis
Securosis has released a whitepaper on their research with regards to database denial-of-service attacks. This whitepaper is platform agnostic. It...
2013-09-11
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Execution Plan Cost Estimates
It’s been emphasized over and over that the costs of operations within an execution plan, and the estimated costs of...
2013-09-11
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Managing Data in a FileTable with T-SQL
I wrote a post about creating a Filetable, which just covered the basics of how to build one. How do...
2013-09-11
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MCM on Life Support
Good news everybody. October 1st is no longer the day that the MCM was prescribed to die. The Microsoft Certified Master is now on life support until December 31st,...
2013-09-11
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MCM on Life Support
Good news everybody. October 1st is no longer the day that the MCM was prescribed to die. The Microsoft Certified...
2013-09-11
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Running a Parameter-Sensitive Stored Procedure on a Secondary Replica
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers