Is Unit Testing Important?
Testing our applications is important, but at what level do we need to test? Steve Jones talks about unit testing today, and wonders if this is prevalent for SQL Server developers.
Is Unit Testing Important?
Testing our applications is important, but at what level do we need to test? Steve Jones talks about unit testing today, and wonders if this is prevalent for SQL Server developers.
Is Unit Testing Important?
Testing our applications is important, but at what level do we need to test? Steve Jones talks about unit testing today, and wonders if this is prevalent for SQL Server developers.
Writing Custom Rules for FxCop
FxCop is a useful tool for analyzing code to highlight potential issues and deviations from best practise. To fully utilize to power of FxCop, custom rules can be added to the inbuilt rules that ship with FxCop.
#SQLPASS on Twitter
With the PASS Summit taking place last week in Seattle, Steve Jones found that there was a tremendous amount of SQL Server news and information on Twitter. It's a medium that is becoming useful for SQL DBAs.
A Bad Litmus Test
A litmus test is a way of determining your answer to a question based on a single issue or response. Steve Jones sees this as a bad idea, especially when looking to hire technical people.
An Un-indexed Foreign Key Gotcha
Indexing is important for improving performance, but do you know that a lack of indexes might actually cause things to stop working? Alok Dwivedi brings us a very interesting scenario where the lack of an index causes a problem with concurrency.
A Bad Litmus Test
A litmus test is a way of determining your answer to a question based on a single issue or response. Steve Jones sees this as a bad idea, especially when looking to hire technical people.
A Bad Litmus Test
A litmus test is a way of determining your answer to a question based on a single issue or response. Steve Jones sees this as a bad idea, especially when looking to hire technical people.
A Bad Litmus Test
A litmus test is a way of determining your answer to a question based on a single issue or response. Steve Jones sees this as a bad idea, especially when looking to hire technical people.
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The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( N'City':N'Denver' RETURNING JSON) GOSee possible answers