The Forever Technology War
The differences in our understanding of technologies can make for some communication challenges.
Git Anatomy
In this article, Dino Esposito gives an overview of git explaining repository, commit, and branch.
Maintaining Data in a Flow
One of the challenges of using scripts is maintaining them and ensuring the adapt over time.
Explore the Role of Normal Forms in Dimensional Modeling
In this tip we walk through an exercise of developing a data model based on the characteristics of the data requirements.
Free eBook: Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA
Three SQL Server MVPs (Jonathan Kehayias, Ted Krueger and Gail Shaw) provide fascinating insight into the most common SQL Server problems, why they occur, and how they can be diagnosed using tools such as Performance Monitor, Dynamic Management Views and server-side tracing. The focus is on practical solutions for removing root causes of these problems, rather than "papering over the cracks".
Monitoring Amazon RDS SQL Servers with SQL Monitor v11
SQL Monitor v11 introduces native support for SQL Server instances hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Relational Database Service (RDS) platform. In this post we'll explore the metrics you need to keep an eye on with Amazon RDS SQL Server monitoring, how a monitoring tool will help you manage the process of migrating databases to the Amazon cloud, as well as measures its success, and how SQL Monitor allows you to monitor all your SQL Server instances, wherever they are hosted, through a single pane of glass.
Handling the Duplication of Records
Learn how to easily identify and remove duplicate records when you discover them.
Static Hosting with Azure Blob Storage and Azure CDN
No matter what you need, Azure probably has a solution. In this article Diogo Souza demonstrates how to host a static web page in Azure in just a few steps with Azure Blob Storage and Azure CDN.
NoSqlOnSql
Introduction NoSqlOnSql is a strict syntactical superset of SQL; it adds NoSQL document-oriented capabilities to the SQL language. For this, it uses uses JSON-like documents, integrating them into the normal flow of SQL statements. NoSqlOnSql is based on augmenting a SQL database to support NoSQL features without any kernel changes. In this sense it is […]
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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