What is a Relational Database Management System
This article covers the relational database system evolution and covers terms used in relational models such as relation, tuple, attribute, domain, schemas, and key.
A Need for Monitoring without Administration
A recent hack through a network monitoring system is scary, but Steve thinks that we ought to not require these systems to have privileged access.
Stairway to U-SQL Level 18: Populating a Data Lake with PowerShell
Learn how PowerShell can be used to manage files and folders in your Data Lake.
DBA in training: Know your server’s limits
Comparing current performance to baselines helps DBAs know when there’s a problem. In this article, Pamela Mooney describes how to measure the physical resources drive space, latency, memory, and CPU.
Maintaining a Database Build Script with SQL Compare
Phil Factor explores a lesser-known capability of SQL Compare, which is to help you maintain a 'traditional', well-documented, single file build script, for creating the current version of the database during development.
Spoofing Data Convincingly: Text Data
Learn how to generate some convincing data for your development databases.
The Devil is in the Details
The story of an engineer solving a problem is a good one that shows technical skills and a passion for the work.
Import Excel Data into SQL Server with PowerShell
In this article we look at PowerShell code you can use to import Excel data into SQL Server.
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Do *not* place TEMPDB on a local disk in a SQL failover cluster
What happens with tempdb on a local disk in a cluster? Read on to see that you will not get a failover if the local disk fails
Blogs
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Introduction of OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = ON
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
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?