Trick question. Don't do it; use a constraint instead.
I've worked in a dozen IT shops over the years, and I don't think I've encountered usage of RULE based...

Normalization, and data modeling in general, are good questions for intermediate level and higher database developers, because it's hard for a candidate to talk about without having actually having hands...

Does anyone here besides me implement partitioning on indexes just for taking advantage of incremental reorgs and re-indexing? It depends on the access patterns and chosen partitioning key, but at...

To answer the question "Is what we're doing with this data really data science?", we first must ask the question "What is science?". Technology and process aside, science is first...

North Carolina and other like minded states would be interested to know that this technology could be easily employed to enforce gender based bathroom segregation laws. This is a $10...

ALTER INDEX { index_name | ALL } ON <object>
{
  REBUILD {
    [ PARTITION = ALL ] [ WITH ( <rebuild_index_option> [ ,...n ]...

Keep in mind that business intelligence involves a lot of interfacing with internal and possibly external end users. The choices regarding technology and implementation will be handed down from above,...

Tuesday morning I discovered an overnight ETL process running on an Azure IaaS instance had aborted. Yesterday, I was told that Microsoft rebooted our Azure  hosted servers in the process of...