Moving to the Heartland
With companies like Microsoft and Google building data centers in small towns, Steve Jones has some comments about how this might affect IT jobs.
Moving to the Heartland
With companies like Microsoft and Google building data centers in small towns, Steve Jones has some comments about how this might affect IT jobs.
Introduction to DML Triggers
This article by Jack Corbett explains what triggers are, the different types, and how to avoid common mistakes.
Showing OLAP Data in SSRS - SQL School Video
Reporting Services makes it easy to get data from a variety of sources, including Analysis Services cubes. In this SQL School video, Brian Knight shows how to use an SSAS cube as the dataa source for your reporting needs.
Too Good at Data Analysis
Can you be too good at analyzing data? An interesting story from the financial markets.
Can you shrink your SQL Server database to death?
To increase SQL Server disk space, 'shrink the database' task is used. But the tests in this tip using autogrowth prove that 'shrink database' poorly impacts SQL performance.
Climb Another Mountain - Database Weekly (Oct 13, 2008)
The next version of SQL Server has a codename. Or does it? Steve Jones talks about some announcements in the SQL Server world this past week.
Monitoring Database Blocking Through SCOM 2007 Custom Rules and Alerts
A methodology is described to bring out the best in database monitoring through System Center Operations Manager 2007 customization.
Granting View Definition Permission to a User or Role
Instead of granting higher level permissions, is there a way to allow users that only have public access the ability to see object definitions?
Too Good at Data Analysis
Can you be too good at analyzing data? An interesting story from the financial markets.
Blogs
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
Forums
Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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