Why send a DBA into space?
Why? Because they're the real Masters of the Universe. Red Gate Software is giving DBAs a chance to fly in space. As in, weightless, in orbit, out of the Earth's atmosphere.
Going Beyond the Relational Model with Data
SQL is a powerful tool for querying data, and for aggregating it. However, you can't easily use it to draw inferences, to make predictions, or to tease out subtle correlations. To provide ever more sophisticated inferences to businesses, the race is on to combine the power of the relational model with advanced statistical packages. Both IBM and PostGres are ready with solutions. And SQL Server? Hmm...
The Countdown
Steve Jones has a short piece today, about an announcement coming today at 10am PST during the PASS Summit.
Adding a Node to a SQL Server 2005 Failover Cluster
Setting up multi-node clustered SQL instances from scratch is common practice for companies that want to implement high availability, but adding a new node to an existing clustered SQL instance that has been running for a while may have a few sticking points, especially for a SQL 2005 instance.
First Day of Summit
My first day in Seattle has ended. My flight arrived around 12:30 and I was in good company with John Lang and Julie Smith on the same flight. We rode the light rail...
Are You On the List?
The SQLServerCentral 2011 Party at the Summit is getting bigger and bigger. See if you are on the list, and if not, learn how to get your ticket.
The Half Day Experiment
A change at the PASS Summit this year has Steve Jones watching to see if it works out well for attendees and speakers.
Enabling Drillthrough in Analysis Services
Data analysis from a cube starts with aggregated and summarized data, followed by drill-down and drill-through of the data for a deeper and intelligent analysis. Drill down is inherently supported when you browse the data of the cube, but drill through has to be defined as per the requirements of analysis. In this tip we will see how to enable drill through on a cube.
A Nice Refund
This editorial was originally published on Sept 12, 2006. The IRS makes a $318mm mistake and Steve talks about the need to ensure that you don't do something similar.
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Get the right stuff done
By Steve Jones
Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
Runing tSQLt Tests with Claude
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
Getting Your Data GenAI-Ready: The Next Stage of Data Maturity
By James Serra
I remember a meeting where a client’s CEO leaned in and asked me, “So,...
Forums
Introduction of OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = ON
Hi, We have low latency high volume system. I have a table having 3...
The Long Name
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?