Beer, Cheese and SQL Saturday 118 Madison
This past weekend I (w|t) headed up to Madison, WI to attend and present at SQL Saturday 118. The MADPASS...
2012-04-26
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Offset without OFFSET
A while ago Robert Cary posted an article on SQL Server Central entitled 2005 Paging – The Holy Grail which is,...
2012-04-26
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Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture Options
Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture Options
Of course, your architecture depends on your business requirements along with technical, historical, and political factors....
2012-04-25
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Creating a Symmetric Key in SQL Server
Symmetric keys in SQL Server are recommended for encrypting data in columns. They are a good balance of security and...
2012-04-25
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2012 (2011) Data Breach Report
I had a chance over the weekend to finish reading the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. It’s a compilation...
2012-04-25
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SQL Azure Federation
What is Federation?
Federation is a database object like other objects such as tables, views, stored procedures or triggers.
It is also known as Sharding.
There can be multiple federations in a database.
It is...
2012-04-25
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Identity Crisis
I’m sure most people have identity values lurking somewhere in their databases. In fact I would guess that most people...
2012-05-02 (first published: 2012-04-25)
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SQL Azure Federation
What is Federation?
Federation is a database object like other objects such as tables, views, stored procedures or triggers.It is also known as...
2012-04-25
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SQL Backup 7
What more could you add to a SQL Server backup product? It seems that many software products, including Red Gate’s...
2012-04-24
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Automatic page repair with SQL Server Mirroring
Now and then my colleagues and I find our selves in the middle of a discussion about SQL Server Mirroring...
2012-05-01 (first published: 2012-04-24)
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers