Displaying Hierarchical Data
Producing hierarchies from SQL tables can necessitate joining a table to itself. This article will explain how you can do this.
The Developer Arguments for Stored Procedures
Today Steve asks what reasons a developer has for using stored procedures.
Creating Time-Intelligence Functions in DAX
DAX contains a host of time-intelligence functions with exotic names such as SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR and PARALLELPERIOD. In the last article in this series, Andy Brown explains how to write measures using the range of date functions in DAX, and also explains how time-intelligence functions work behind the scenes.
Meeting your CCPA needs with Data Classification and Masking
This article will explain how to import the data classification metadata for a SQL Server database into Data Masker, providing a masking plan that you can use to ensure the protection of all this data. By applying the data masking operation as part of an automated database provisioning process, you make it fast, repeatable and auditable.
Implementing Date Calculations in SQL
This article explains a way to use labels (last year, YTD, etc.) for report parameters.
Is 100% Security Possible?
A security breach at Microsoft is disconcerting, especially when they don't share details.
Build your DevOps business case with industry insights
With over 2000 participants from every industry sector across the globe, the State of Database DevOps report will help shape the business case of any team looking to implement or improve their approach to database DevOps, no matter the platform they choose to work with. Including a foreword from Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman, Customer Success Engineer at Microsoft, discover the landscape of database DevOps for 2020.
SQL Server on VMWare Performance Optimization
While VMWare hosts mission critical SQL Server applications around the world, there are several configuration and design choices that can bring your databases to a grinding halt. Learn how to optimally configure & optimize SQL Servers running on VMWare
Stairway to U-SQL Level 9: Views and C# Expressions
Learn how U-SQL views can hide complexity and use C# expressions, providing powerful ways to format and return your data.
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
Advice I Like: Respect
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“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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