Whilst getting some courseware ready I was playing around writing some code and I decided to very simply show when a window starts and ends based on you asking for a TumblingWindow of n time units in StreamInsight. I thought this was going to be a two second thing but what I found was something I haven’t yet found documented anywhere until now.
Have you ever wanted a mentor? Do you think that your career would benefit from having one? Steve Jones talks about a new experiment that he is putting in place with Andy Warren that looks to build a mentoring framework.
Join Normalization nut Thomas LeBlanc for a review of a standard operating procedure used among DBAs at an employer. See the changes he made after joining the BI group at this employer. The session will go through naming conventions, check list for creating a table, formatting in stored procedures, and more. A brief preview of the SQLRally talk 3rd Normal Form: That’s Crazy Talk!!! Will be given about Lookup tables. Thur, Apr 21, 2011, 12:00pm EST.
This article demonstrates how a DBA can check for policy compliance by leveraging the Policy Based Management Feature of SQL Server.
This editorial was originally published on Sept 22, 2005. Steve Jones talks about the dangers of blogging about your job and with your company. Be sure that you are aware of what the impact of your posts will be on your image.
Windows Resource Monitor can be a very useful tool for initial diagnosis of performance issues. In this two part series we look at how to troubleshoot performance issues using Resource Monitor.
This webinar, presented by Noemi Moreno, BI Developer at Red Gate Software, will consist of a 30 minute software demonstration followed by Q&A. You will see SQL Developer tools in action, and how they can simplify and enhance your Business Intelligence applications. This takes place on Apr 19, 2011 from 4pm-5pm GMT.
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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