A SQL Conference In The Sun
SQL Connections, part of Dev Connections, is coming in a few weeks. Now is the time to register and get the chance to learn in a sunny location.
2011-03-15
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Editorials
NoSQL is Not the Answer
NoSQL solves some problems in the database world, but not all of them. It's also not an evolution of the relational database, but as Steve Jones notes, it has some features we might see in SQL Server.
2011-03-14
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Serialising tabular and relational data.
Guest editorial by Phil who bemoans the difficulty of transferring tabular data by file between differing databases, spreadsheets and analysis tools.
2011-03-14
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Max Memory
This Friday Steve Jones asks for who's got the best bragging rights. Let us know this Friday just much RAM is a lot.
2011-03-11
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DBA Concerns
A survey of Oracle DBAs shows them having a number of security concerns. Steve Jones thinks that a survey of SQL Server DBAs would be similar.
2011-03-10
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Quality Over Timing
Is quality job one for software companies? Steve Jones asks what you think and comments on why quality might not be as high as we would like.
2011-03-09
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Avoiding Logging
It seems that some people think that you can perform actions in SQL Server without logging them in the transaction log. Steve Jones talks about this myth and says it's not even an option he'd like to have.
2011-03-08
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Is Microsoft neglecting SMO?
Phil Fator, the self-confessed wild man of T-SQL, finally comes clean: he's a secret PowerShell user. But for the DBA, what is PowerShell without SMO? Is Microsoft giving the latter the care and attention it needs?
2011-03-07
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The Wisdom Department
Steve Jones talks about the way business ought to run, with more long term goals and objectives taking precedence over short term revenue. One idea that might help us is having a wisdom department that looks forward and tries to grow the business for the long term.
2011-03-07
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SLA Contracts
This Friday Steve Jones talks about the commitments and contracts that you may have with your customers. Do you know what they are? Is the contract explicitly spelled out? Take this Friday's poll and share your answer with everyone else.
2011-03-04
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
Forums
Two queries work until compared with EXCEPT statement
I've got multiple databases on 2 SQL 2019 CU32 servers , all using the...
STRING_AGG DISTINCT
Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...
In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?
Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...
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