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.
Database Design and Implementation
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
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Drop Database Objects Practically Risk-Free!
FIRST OF A TWO PART SERIES Some months ago, a fellow DBA came to...
Lengthen a Primary Key–#SQLNewBlogger
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Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for...
Setup SQL Server Alert to get automatically notified of database blockings
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Suppose you want to or need to know anytime your SQL Server is experiencing...
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Protecting Data Between Services
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