It is important for data professionals to understand security, but it's also important for end users that must handle data. However we have a lot of work to do to make that easier since Steve Jones thinks many IT pros struggle with this concept.
As responsibilities are growing every day, a DBA or developer needs to improve his/her productivity. One way to do this is to use as many shortcuts as possible instead of using your mouse and the menus. In this tip we take a look at common tasks you may perform when using SSMS and the associated shortcut keys.
As technology has rapidly advanced our communications, we have not necessarily learned to deal with the implications and challenges of this anywhere, anytime communication reach. Steve Jones reminds us that etiquette matters, even when we are designing systems.
Is your SQL query crashing? Nine times out of ten it will be for one of these 5 reasons!
Arshad Ali outlines different types of authentication modes for communicating across SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS) services.
It seems that we regularly hear about outages from various cloud services. Steve Jones comments that we are likely to have this happen more and more, but it's shouldn't happen at a rate greater than in house IT services.
Your job is to read the input string and generate a result set that represents the position of pieces in a chess board.
If you’re not where you want to be in your career, then what do you think is holding you back?
Typically transactional data is quite detailed and analyzing an entire dataset on a graph is not feasible. Generally such data is analyzed using some form of aggregation or frequency distribution. One of the specialized charts generally used in Reporting Services for statistical distribution is Histogram Charts. In this tip we look at how Histogram Charts can be used for statistical distribution analysis and how to create and configure this type of chart in SSRS.
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Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
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While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
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