TSQL Challenge 45 - Evaluate mathematical expressions presented using
This challenge involves evaluating mathematical expressions presented using Roman Numerals and return the result of each expression.
The DELETE statement in SQL Server
Of the big four DML statements in SQL Server, the DELETE is the one least written about. This is odd considering the extra power conferred on the statement by the addition of the WITH common_table_expression; and the OUTPUT clause that essentially allows you to move data from one table to another in one statement.
What’s Going on with SQL Server Service Account Changes?
For years we’ve been told you should use Enterprise Manager in SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server Configuration Manager in...
Hierarchies in SQL
One very common structure that needs to be handled in T-SQL is the hierarchy. One of our prominent members of the community discusses how you can handle hierarchies in SQL Server.
Put Your Thinking Caps On
Three contests from Red Gate Software are coming next week. Get a hint about what might be coming and set a reminder on your calendar.
Shrinking Databases
One piece of advice that is often given to new SQL Server administrators is not to shrink their databases. But they seem to do it often enough anyway. For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks if we should do away with shrink.
Facebook and E-Mail Security for a New Teenager
Cross-posted from a Goal Keeping DBA blog:
Just recently, my oldest son entered the ranks of the teenagers. I shouldn’t actually...
Giving Back, SQLMeetings.com Is Going Live Soon
I’ve been pretty quite since the PASS Summit and with good reason. Every year we have a chapter leader meeting....
Understanding and Controlling Parallel Query Processing in SQL Server
Data warehousing and general reporting applications tend to be CPU intensive because they need to read and process a large number of rows. To facilitate quick data processing for queries that touch a large amount of data, Microsoft SQL Server exploits the power of multiple logical processors to provide parallel query processing operations such as parallel scans. Through extensive testing, we have learned that, for most large queries that are executed in a parallel fashion, SQL Server can deliver linear or nearly linear response time speedup as the number of logical processors increases. However, some queries in high parallelism scenarios perform suboptimally. There are also some parallelism issues that can occur in a multi-user parallel query workload. This white paper describes parallel performance problems you might encounter when you run such queries and workloads, and it explains why these issues occur. In addition, it presents how data warehouse developers can detect these issues, and how they can work around them or mitigate them.
Certified Private Clouds
Microsoft is working to certify vendors to build private clouds, which Steve Jones thinks is a great idea.
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Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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