Understanding Data Modeling Part 4: Fact Modeling
In Part 1 we presented some foundation knowledge with which to debunk misconceptions lurking in the "data models" mess in the industry that Friesendal has tried to catalog. In...
2019-05-04
Database Design and Implementation
The Blast Radius of a database
Phil Factor feels that the database gets the short shrift in any outage - it's time to stop saying "the database has gone down" and time to start thinking about the resilience of the entire system.
2019-05-04
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Downgrading A SQL Server Database To An Older Version
"How do I restore a SQL Server backup to a previous version of SQL Server?" is a commonly-asked question. The answer, of course, is you don't - but if you must, there may be some solutions.
2019-05-03
Should I pluralize table names, is it Person, Persons, People or People?
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How do you choose whether to pluralize or not?
2019-05-03
Designing Highly Scalable Database Architectures
While architecting cloud native applications, you need to ensure that your system is highly available, performant, scalable, fault tolerant, and has the capability to recover from a disaster scenario. In this article, Samir Behara discusses the options available when designing the database architecture to achieve scalability.
2019-05-02
Understanding Data Modeling Part 2: "E/RM" and "RDM"
In Part 1 we presented some foundation knowledge with which to debunk misconceptions lurking in the industry's modeling mess that Friesendal has tried to map, and to show how...
2019-04-22
Understanding Your Database
Steve notes that many of us might not completely understand every part of our database, but it's information that can be helpful in cleaning out unnecessary entities.
2019-04-10
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The Cost of Useless Surrogate Keys in Relationship Tables
What’s a good natural key? This is a very difficult question for most entities when you design your schema. In some rare cases, there seems to be an “obvious” candidate, such as a variety of ISO standards.
2019-04-05
Blogs
Getting the Proc Code–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for...
Running SQL Server in Google Cloud Platform
By Daniel Janik
On a few occasions I’ve referred to GCP (Google Cloud Platform) as the “Windows...
More ADLS Gen2 enhancements
By James-Serra
On the heels of More Azure Blob Storage enhancements come more enhancements for Azure...
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Copy Azure SQL DB App data to Azure Synapse
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