Phil Factor muses on the power, and potential failings, of the relational database, and wonders if those responsible for its development should feel any guilt about the opportunities for abuse of the power that it affords.
Learn about the Business Intelligence systems of SQL Server with a series of free videos in Arabic.
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Greg Larsen introduces some Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) and Dynamic Management Functions (DMFs) to help monitor your application's T-SQL performance. In addition, he provides a Stored Procedure that utilizes the DMVs and DMFs to produce a report that quickly identifies poorly performing T-SQL statements.
Loading and processing XML files into SQL Server tables can be simple, thanks to a method that uses SQL Server functions and XPath expressions.
If you've read my blog over the past year and a half you know that I've been heavily involved in trying to build a 'franchise' around SQLSaturday, with the guiding principle being that the event has to be locally owned. We've had some decent success, but we've also seen that in many cases groups are reluctant to try hosting one, usually due to one of the following:
sql_saturday_logo I’ve been pretty lucky in my career to have the opportunity to attend quite a few conferences. I’ve attended one, and often more than one, a year, and I’ve had great opportunities to not only learn more about SQL Server and technology, but also to network and meet professionals from all over the world, many of whom have become good friends.
With all the bailouts being requested in the US, where is the money for DBAs who need it?
With all the bailouts being requested in the US, where is the money for DBAs who need it?
With all the bailouts being requested in the US, where is the money for DBAs who need it?
By Steve Jones
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Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
By Ed Elliott
Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
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Hi, We have low latency high volume system. I have a table having 3...
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?