The first level of the Stairway to TDE will explain how the feature works and how to set this up on one of your instances and databases.
2026-04-02 (first published: 2020-04-29)
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In this eighth step of the SSAS Tabular Stairway start to expand the model beyond one fact table.
2019-10-09
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In the second level of our Stairway to SQLCLR, we look at how to enable the SQLCLR in SQL Server. We then build an assembly, store procedure, and a function that can be called from your T-SQL code.
2020-07-09 (first published: 2019-09-24)
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In this next level of the Stairway to Azure Data Factory, learn how to build your first ADF environment.
2020-01-15 (first published: 2019-09-04)
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In this level of the Stairway to SQL Server on Linux, we learn how to set up and use SQL Agent.
2019-08-06
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In this next level of the Stairway to Database Containers learn how to customer a container and save the changes to a new image.
2024-07-28 (first published: 2019-07-18)
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Time Intelligence is a common methodology in Dimensional Modeling that allows for calculations of measures based on relative dates. These include “To-Date” measures like Year to Date or Quarter to Date as well as Previous Period comparisons. Once these are created within a model, other DAX functions can be used for metrics like Year over […]
2022-10-24 (first published: 2019-07-10)
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Introduction Instead of going straight into the topic of the Query Store, I would like to start this Stairway Series by mentioning a few performance tuning scenarios that are very common to production DBAs. I think most of us have been in one of these situations at some time: An application experiencing slowness after a […]
2020-10-07 (first published: 2019-05-13)
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In this level, learn about how to get the tools needing for coding in R and how to execute some code that connects to SQL Server.
2019-05-06
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The second level of the Stairway to Database Containers looks at the basics of persisting storage in your containers.
2024-07-28 (first published: 2019-02-25)
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