If you own a business, I believe that you have a right to make more money than the rest of your employees. You are taking on a risk, and greater risk should result in greater reward, at least that’s how capitalism is supposed to work. But what about management...
SQL Server database engine doesn't have a MEDIAN() aggregate function. This is probably because there are several types of median, such as statistical, financial or vector medians. Calculating Medians are essentially a row-positioning task, since medians are the middle value of an ordered result. Easy to do in SQL? Nope. Joe Celko explains why.
How do you protect and monitor your databases? Auditing is one way, but Steve Jones thinks this subsystem in SQL Server needs to mature.
How do you protect and monitor your databases? Auditing is one way, but Steve Jones thinks this subsystem in SQL Server needs to mature.
How do you protect and monitor your databases? Auditing is one way, but Steve Jones thinks this subsystem in SQL Server needs to mature.
In another article on the presentation layer aspects of reporting Services, Adam Aspin explains how to add conditional formatting to your reports
MVP Brad McGehee explores the education of the typical DBA and what they have studied in the past.
In this video written by MVP Brad McGehee you can learn how to get started using the Profiler GUI.
Web Services has been a hot topic for a number of years now, but what, you may wonder, are these Data Services everyone's talking about lately? As the architecture of Web applications has changed and matured (with the popularity of Rich Internet Applications [RIAs], for example), there has been an increased awareness of the value of exposing raw data, minus any interface or formatting, to any service or application that wants to consume it.
Flash. Flash Gordon. There have been a few "Flash"es in Steve Jones career, and the newest one looks interesting.
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
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If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
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In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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