The previous installment of this series examined aggregate subquery removal and subquery coalescing, describing the latter as similar in some ways to an inverse for “Or Expansion” and “Join Factorization”. In this instalment, it’s time to take a closer look at Or Expansion and we’ll move on to Join Factorization in the next instalment.
With the average data breach costing $4.35 million, Test Data Management (TDM) is crucial. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how TDM can reduce your risk by achieving scalable compliance without slowing down your database development process. Watch on demand now.
A look back at the PASS Data Community Summit in 8 slides from Tonie Huizer.
Learn how one company adopted, adapted, and learned from the Agile methodology.
In my previous tip, I explained how we are inclined to use archive tables and how they become increasingly problematic over time. This tip will focus on ways to mitigate the issues.
An introduction on how to implement condition formatting of cells, such as the font and background colour or font weight, within SSRS using SSRS Expressions.
This week Steve Jones looks at moving the port numbers of your instances for a bit of security.
In this article, we cover things you should know about Azure SQL Database and why this may be a good choice for your database applications.
Bob Pusateri, Database Engineering Lead at Salesforce, joined our recent Summit to discuss how automation can enable digital transformation. Listen in full.
This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to...
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Switching Schemas I
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Enforcing Unique Customer Emails When...
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers