Azure DWH part 20: Create External and Internal tables As Select
CTAS and CETAS are very important T-SQL features in ASDW. These features allow to create a table and fill with data based on a query.
4 Ways to Move Data Into a Reporting Server
You’ve decided that you need to offload reports to a different SQL Server, and you’re willing to pay the costs. Here are the most common ways to move the data from production to a reporting server, arranged roughly from easiest-to-implement to hardest.
Loading data into SQL Data Warehouse
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A DBA's Look at the Data Catalog
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Learning to Stop Being a Hero
There is a hero complex for many in IT. Steve provides some advice in how we should look at our workload and our employer's expectations when we consider a new job.
Data privacy: don’t look forward, look back
What does Amazon’s Alexa have to do with a wiretapping law from the 1960s? With all the talk about new data privacy legislation, we don’t stop to think about existing laws. Legislation like the GDPR kick-started the way the world views data privacy, and this blog post explores how existing laws are being used in new ways around the globe to enforce similar protection.
The End of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Extended Support
Many organisations still run their companies on SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2. There are many reasons to upgrade, but the most pressing reason is that extended support is running out. In this article, Brian Kelley explains what this means, tells you about some of the features you’ll gain if you upgrade, and provides some options.
Waking Up to No Support
Support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 ended yesterday. Steve has a few thoughts on what you should be thinking about today.
Simple Steps in SQL Change Automation Scripting
Phil Factor demonstrates the bare essentials of SCA PowerShell scripts that can form the basis for an automated process for database delivery or help improve your current process.
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Question of the Day
Getting the Object Code
What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database?
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'dbo.uspGetBillofMaterials')) AS [Object Definition]; GOSee possible answers