Does It Help
This editorial was originally published on Oct 12, 2006, published today as Steve is out today at the PASS Summit. Today Steve talks about the productivity that comes from having multiple monitors.
Stairway to MDX - Level 8: Member “Family” Functions: .LastChild and .FirstSibling
BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his introduction to the MDX Members functions. In this Level we continue our exploration of the general “family” group with the .LastChild and .FirstSibling functions.
Add and Subtract Dates using DATEADD in SQL Server
Date manipulation is a common scenario when retrieving or storing data in a SQL Server database. There are several functions that are available and in this tip we look at how to use the DATEADD function.
Need the First Tuesday Beyond Y days after X Date
A task was set before our team to find the first Tuesday after 10 days from a specific date. This article shows how we accomplished that.
The Contest That's Out of the World
Steve Jones talks about the most interesting contest, evah! Brought to you by Red Gate Software.
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.
Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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