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.
2024-06-26 (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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When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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