Eliminating Duplicate Rows using The PARTITION BY clause
The Partition clause in the Row_Number() Over() function is a quick tool for eliminating duplicate rows.
The Partition clause in the Row_Number() Over() function is a quick tool for eliminating duplicate rows.
Today Steve Jones has a poll about the new AlwaysOn feature in SQL Server 2012. Is it worth the upgrade for your company?
How merge replication works, including the impact on the published database. The merge agent, different conflict situations and their resolutions are introduced.
When you are using SSIS, there soon comes a time when you are confronted with having to do a tricky task such as searching for particular connection strings in all your SSIS packages, or checking the execution history of scheduled SSIS jobs. You can do this type of work effectively in T-SQL as Feodor Georgiev explains.
How to change the port number for connections to SQL Server.
A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
Today Steve Jones talks about the conflicting demands of home and work and how you can reconcile the requirements of both.
In this tip we cover what CONTROL SERVER is, how to detect its use and a possible way to exploit this permission.
What happens to your indexes during normal database activity?
Is the cloud good for your career? Steve Jones thinks so, and gives you a few reasons you might want to learn more about it.
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