The Real World: Implementing AWE
Describes the gains experienced in my environment by implementing AWE.
Describes the gains experienced in my environment by implementing AWE.
The definition of Big Data is rather murky, despite all the press and attention given to it. Steve Jones talks about what Big Data means for relational databases.
Arshad Ali discusses the details of creating reports with indicators and gauges in SQL Server 2008 and walks you through designing a one tablix report with two levels of grouping.
Self service in IT is something Steve Jones likes, but it doesn't solve all problems, and might end up creating more issues.
Shawn McGehee discusses partial backups, how they're used, and how to avoid potential problems when restoring from a partial backup.
On Thursday May 17th 12PM noon Central, Mike Fal will discuss "SQL Server's table partitioning gives the DBA tools to manage this beast and support very large tables in a way where index management and data retrieval..."
Building a Stock Price Correlation Matrix Using TVPs, a CROSS JOIN and the PIVOT Function
Phil Factor welcomes SQL Server support by Amazon RDS, as an alternative to having Microsoft as service provider as well as software provider, via the PaaS formerly known as Azure.
Software engineering is seen as a dead end career choice, at least by some people. Steve Jones disagrees.
Snapshot isolation levels improve performance but there are some things to take into consideration when using this feature. Arshad Ali discusses what snapshot isolation levels are, their variants, and why and when we should use them.
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My T-SQL Tuesday #202 entry for Marlon Ribunal's invitation on memorable SQL Server outages....
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
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“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers