During database development, as well as writing SQL, you must also write the tests that prove your SQL code meets all the requirements. The article will help you get started with database testing for your SQL Server databases, by creating and running unit tests against them, as well as static code analysis tests.
Today Steve notes that learning to be better at SQL is a good career investment, more for you than your boss.
Learn how to use the CData MySQL connector to access data across SSH.
Instant file initialization can speed up database creation, file growth, and restores. Greg Larsen explains how to configure it and how it works.
We're thrilled to welcome Microsoft as the Premier Sponsor at this year's PASS Data Community Summit. The Microsoft team will be a fundamental part of the conference program and activities through educational sessions, product deep-dives and announcements, Microsoft-focused workshops, keynotes, and more. We're excited to continue this relationship in support of the global data community.
It seems that instances are being upgraded about every ten years, according to Steve's interpretation of some reports. Do you agree? Let us know how often you upgrade.
One of the lesser used functions is COALESCE(), used to allow you to return one value from a list of those that are potentially NULL. This short pieces gives a few examples where this is useful?
In this article we look at the similarities and differences for views in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL. We also look at indexed views, materialized views and updatable views.
When you are using Flyway, how can you test your database migration script first to make sure it works exactly as you intended before you let Flyway execute it? Phil Factor explains.
Practice makes perfect:” right? Well, not exactly. The reality of it all is that this saying is an untrustworthy aphorism. I discovered this in my “younger” days when I was a passionate tennis player, practicing and playing 20+ hours a week. No matter what my passion level was, without some serious coaching (and perhaps a […]
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Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
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