Creating vs. Maintaining
When you create something, do you think about the future? Steve asks the question today.
2025-01-29
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Database Development
2025-01-17
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Free SQL Server
There are a number of ways to run SQL Server for free (or low cost) for development. Read a bit about how to do this.
2024-02-23
5,261 reads
Cache SQL Server Data in a .NET Web Application
One of the slowest parts of any application is data retrieval and in this article, we look at how to cache SQL Server data for a web application.
2023-05-22
Self-Service Databases
When I first started work as a software developer, I knew that getting an environment set up where I could compile a project might take a few hours or a few days. The complexities of how people built software projects, the dependencies, and more were handled in a very immature manner. These days I can […]
2022-11-16
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Choosing State Over Migrations
Steve notes that there are differences between state based development and migration based development, but neither is necessarily better.
2021-10-06
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2020-11-13
118 reads
The Challenges of Resetting Databases
The challenges of state in databases can impact our development efforts.
2020-08-31
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Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 2 Best Practices and Guidelines
In the second article of this series, Edward Pollack demonstrates some ways to design and populate a columnstore index to get even better performance.
2020-07-17
Understanding Auctions
We participate in auctions all the time even when we don’t realize it. In this article, Joe Celko discusses the many different types of auctions and how they work.
2019-11-25
Blogs
Build a C++ Pipeline with Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure ACR and Azure App Service
In today’s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having a robust build pipeline is very...
Better Trigger Design: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables....
SQL Server in the Cloud – Are DBAs Still Needed?
By Kevin3NF
Things your cloud vendor may not tell you Here’s a common theme I...
Forums
Dropping a PK constraint.
I will have to test this next week, but will not have a chance...
SQL - Conditional merge join
I want to add a condition in the joining columns part of the merge...
Is there a way to implement ROWS between logic?
Hi everyone SUM function has the option to select ROWS BETWEEN parameter to allow...
Question of the Day
What is Between?
I have a table of products in SQL Server 2022. There are sequential items in the table with ProductIDs of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * FROM dbo.Products WHERE ProductID BETWEEN 4 AND 7;See possible answers