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.

TSQL Challenge 58 - Playing Chess in TSQL – Part 1

by Jacob Sebastian

SQLServerCentral.com

T-SQL Challenges

Your job is to read the input string and generate a result set that represents the position of pieces in a chess board.

What's holding you back?

by Chris Massey

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

If you’re not where you want to be in your career, then what do you think is holding you back?

Creating a Reporting Services Histogram Chart for Statistical Distribution Analysis

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MSSQLTips.com

Reporting Services (SSRS)

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.

Index Management

by sql frenzy

SQLServerCentral.com

Indexing

This article demonstrates an Index Management strategy to tackle day to day performance issues due to improper indexes.

Part 1: The Database Administrator's Primary Responsibility

by John Sansom

SQLServerCentral.com

SQL Server Essentials Part 1: A look at the key responsibility of a DBA and why it is so vital.

The Desire for Control

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This Friday Steve Jones asks you if you want more knobs for SQL Server or less? It's a debate that balances the need for the DBA to know more with the resources Microsoft spends to build better tuning into the product.

3 SQL Join Concepts to Help You Choose the Right Join

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developer.com

T-SQL

What do SQL joins and the "teach a man to fish" Chinese proverb have in common? SQL joins, like regular expressions, are one of those commonplace programming tasks in which true success is entirely dependent upon your ability to conceptualize the outcome. Fail to do so and you'll likely wind up spending a few hours in a frustrating round of trial and error. Like regular expressions, the proliferation of online examples has actually contributed to the frustration, providing the equivalent of a day's worth of fish rather than the proverbial fishing pool.